bajadreamer wrote:
My favorite photo in your series so far. These little guys are frustrating to shoot, but great fun. Always have to be prepared for lots of culls.
Yep, I find about only one in 25 or so are keepers, but I shoot in rapid fire bursts of about three or four. It's fun to see how they react to the bursts of light. After a while they become accustomed to the flash, twitch but keep on drinking the nectar bait that I provide for them. I have "trained" mine to drink directly from a small plastic tube that is easy to remove using PhotoShop. I should post at least one photo that includes the bait tube with their beak sipping the nectar from it.