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Mar 29, 2020 05:43:08   #
Stash Loc: South Central Massachusetts
 
You were lucky they sat still for you. It's so hard to get a good shot of these tiny, quick birds.

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Mar 29, 2020 09:47:16   #
Indrajeet Singh Loc: Goa, India
 
Nice set of images Robert. I enjoyed photographing them when I visited some years ago.

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Mar 29, 2020 09:47:30   #
fbeaston Loc: Vermont
 
Nice series ... we're still waiting for all the snow to melt here!!!!

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Mar 29, 2020 10:03:41   #
blacks2 Loc: SF. Bay area
 
Super nice.

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Mar 29, 2020 11:26:22   #
AzPicLady Loc: Behind the camera!
 
No black blobs? These are REALLY nice.

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Mar 29, 2020 13:32:55   #
Susan yamakawa
 
💕💕

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Mar 29, 2020 13:53:57   #
AzShooter1 Loc: Surprise, Az.
 
Great shots.

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Mar 29, 2020 14:33:00   #
Earnest Botello Loc: Hockley, Texas
 
Very good set, Robert.

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Mar 29, 2020 17:45:27   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
Stash wrote:
You were lucky they sat still for you. It's so hard to get a good shot of these tiny, quick birds.


Sit still - what is that????

For every shot I got while they were on pause I missed about 100 because I was looking at "where it used to be" through the camera.

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Mar 29, 2020 17:50:54   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
Indrajeet Singh wrote:
Nice set of images Robert. I enjoyed photographing them when I visited some years ago.


Thank you, I enjoy your images a lot. Maybe we can arrange a "Cultural Exchange" program _ Humming Birds for India and some of your's to Southern California. On second thought maybe not. Some environmental groups or agencies would probably call for us to be raided by half the Special Forces military in our two countries for introducing "invasive species".

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Mar 29, 2020 17:53:22   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
fbeaston wrote:
Nice series ... we're still waiting for all the snow to melt here!!!!


Snow???????? Oh, that stuff on the mountains up high 30 miles north of me. I have vague memories of snow in Kentucky, Illinois and Pennsylvania when I was a kid.

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Mar 29, 2020 17:53:46   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
blacks2 wrote:
Super nice.


Thanks very much.

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Mar 29, 2020 17:54:28   #
CLF Loc: Raleigh, NC
 
robertjerl wrote:
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.
This cool weather with rain every so often has mad... (show quote)


Robert, excellent set and the captions are great.

Greg

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Mar 29, 2020 17:57:31   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
AzPicLady wrote:
No black blobs? These are REALLY nice.


Thanks.

Here is one from a few years ago - black yes, blob=not so much. This one was high in a tree with hazy sky and very strong back light so I just used contrast and saturation then hit the B&W conversion to get this.


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Mar 29, 2020 17:59:01   #
robertjerl Loc: Corona, California
 
Susan yamakawa wrote:
💕💕


thanks

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