Finally caught a hummer
Aug 29, 2016 16:00:41 #
I think I may have finally gotten an image I'm happy with. Taken close to my chair on our patio (check the focal length). They (it?) visit the flower pots my wife arranged in addition to our feeder and no longer seem really skittish. I think this is a female Ruby Throated, but correct me if I'm wrong.
Aug 29, 2016 16:03:05 #
Aug 29, 2016 16:38:25 #
Aug 29, 2016 19:46:41 #
Very nice capture. I like the composition, background and slight motion blur! Well done.
Aug 29, 2016 23:13:49 #
Cwilson341 wrote:
Very nice capture. I like the composition, background and slight motion blur! Well done.
Thanks Carol. I'll need to go faster than 1/1000 second to freeze those wings. I would have thought that shutter speed would freeze just about anything in nature! But I do like the slight blur.
Aug 30, 2016 10:03:02 #
Bear2
Loc: Southeast,, MI
lsimpkins wrote:
I think I may have finally gotten an image I'm happy with. Taken close to my chair on our patio (check the focal length). They (it?) visit the flower pots my wife arranged in addition to our feeder and no longer seem really skittish. I think this is a female Ruby Throated, but correct me if I'm wrong.
Fantastic capture!
I am still trying.
Duane
Aug 30, 2016 11:21:26 #
Well done! Don't worry about freezing the wings, you need the speed of a flash unit do really do that. This is indeed a Ruby-throat, either a female or a 1st year male who hasn't yet developed his gorget. The Ruby-throated is the only HB that breeds in SE PA. Occasionally we will get a migrating Rufous HB but they are seldomly seen this early. If you keep your feeder up until December, you might attract one.
Aug 30, 2016 15:20:47 #
Aug 30, 2016 16:13:31 #
Bear2 wrote:
Fantastic capture!
I am still trying.
Duane
I am still trying.
Duane
Thanks for the compliment. Don't give up. I tried for quite a while without much to show for it.
Aug 30, 2016 16:14:18 #
Aug 30, 2016 16:18:07 #
birdpix wrote:
Well done! Don't worry about freezing the wings, you need the speed of a flash unit do really do that. This is indeed a Ruby-throat, either a female or a 1st year male who hasn't yet developed his gorget. The Ruby-throated is the only HB that breeds in SE PA. Occasionally we will get a migrating Rufous HB but they are seldomly seen this early. If you keep your feeder up until December, you might attract one.
Thank you for your feedback and especially the additional information you have provided. I do have a good flash, but am reluctant to use it - fear of scaring it (them?) off. I would never have thought that any hummers would be around late in the season as December. We normally take our feeder down when most of the leaves are off the trees, but I just may leave it up this year to see if anything comes by.
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