Hummers, I Got Hummers!
Mar 28, 2020 04:09:57 #
This cool weather with rain every so often has made my feeders very popular. The little hummers are fueling often to keep up energy and stay warm I suppose. They have been fighting over who gets which feeders, I now have different groups fighting over all three feeders in the back yard and the level of the one on the front of the house goes down so others are using that one. My daughter went out to get the mail and didn't notice the feeder and a bird buzzed very close to her head on its landing approach. She said she thought she was being attacked by the world's largest bee until she looked around and saw it drinking on the feeder.
I had just filled all the bird feeders and sat in a lawn chair on the pool deck near by to get these shots.
#1 7DII, 100-400L+1.4x III @ 560, 1/250 @ F/11, ISO 400 hand held with fill flash
#2 all same but 328 mm and f/8.0
#3 all same but 560 mm, f/8.0
I have shots of three more types of birds that came after I refilled the feeders, but it is after 1 AM here and I am sleepy. I will post them tomorrow.
I had just filled all the bird feeders and sat in a lawn chair on the pool deck near by to get these shots.
#1 7DII, 100-400L+1.4x III @ 560, 1/250 @ F/11, ISO 400 hand held with fill flash
#2 all same but 328 mm and f/8.0
#3 all same but 560 mm, f/8.0
I have shots of three more types of birds that came after I refilled the feeders, but it is after 1 AM here and I am sleepy. I will post them tomorrow.
You refill feeder and I pose, deal?
(Download)
How long we have to be nice to each other?
(Download)
I is being nice! Take picture already, please!
(Download)
Mar 28, 2020 04:20:32 #
Mar 28, 2020 07:19:50 #
Mar 28, 2020 09:30:51 #
Mar 28, 2020 11:12:42 #
Mar 28, 2020 14:21:10 #
Mar 28, 2020 14:21:25 #
Mar 28, 2020 14:22:39 #
Mar 28, 2020 14:23:00 #
Mar 28, 2020 15:30:23 #
Mar 28, 2020 15:37:35 #
Mar 28, 2020 15:53:23 #
Mar 28, 2020 16:09:37 #
Mar 28, 2020 16:46:22 #
robertjerl wrote:
This cool weather with rain every so often has mad... (show quote)
Oh my goodness! You sure do have hummers and they are beautiful. Really like them.
Mar 28, 2020 21:36:03 #
Elliern wrote:
Oh my goodness! You sure do have hummers and they are beautiful. Really like them.
Thank you, a person a few miles from me who posts on a local Birder FaceBook group had a shot of one of the large feeders with about eight birds on it and several more hovering nearby. UCLA has a professor who keeps a Hummingbird Garden on the campus and it is said to have 200-250 resident birds from year to year for several years now. Naturally I found out after our daughter graduated and 70 miles one way is a bit much to see the garden.
If you want to reply, then register here. Registration is free and your account is created instantly, so you can post right away.