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FWC photo by Greg Workman
Activities were conducted under the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service permit # MA770191
Strobist details: 622 to the left into brolly box. 285HV to the right into silver umbrella. Bare 285HV in the rear right as a backlight. All optically triggered from the 144PC in my EP-3's hotshoe.
Since I can see that the view is aligned with Nicollet Mall, and I can cross that axis with the runway I landed on, it is possible to find out where I was flying over to take this photo! :-)
This cutie was bouncing about my kitchen. I approached in a calm, authoritative fashion, while speaking softly, and convinced it that I was not malevolent. Twenty minutes after release, I was in the back yard and it returned, scrutinizing me at a distance ranging from 5 to 15 feet for a period of 4 to 5 minutes.
**Its plumage is best appreciated in the 'large' size.**
Life is good.
A bit of research shows it to be a female Calliope Hummingbird.
Close up of a home made instrument that kept cropping up on my trip around Rajasthan. Does anyone know what it is?
Experiment with the macro settings on my new camera. My old one couldn't take a closeup quite this well.