Hummingbird

[OriginHacker21]

Managed to snap about 10 shots of this hummingbird. This is the best shot:

Humming Bird Flickr URL

And the actual picture for those of us who don't like to click on links:

The bird was really interested in me so it let me take 10+ shots. The last shot I took it flew off - I managed to get it RIGHT as it flew away.

 

[Bill in Utah]

Nice Pic!

 

[Drew99GT]

We get inundated with them in the summer - I have 3 feeders. Funny little buzzards, especially the Rufous hummingbirds. They're the ones that guard the feeders and fight the others off. Hilarious to watch!

Nice pic!

 

[moribundman]

Originally Posted By: OriginHacker21

The bird was really interested in me so it let me take 10+ shots. The last shot I took it flew off - I managed to get it RIGHT as it flew away.


Awesome shot. I tried shooting a hummingbird in Golden Gate Park last weekend, but with my slow digital camera I had zero chance. The birdie was darting around and hovering for maybe one or two seconds tops before blasting off at the most likely angles. The wings made amazing noise.

 

[CBDFrontier06]

They seem to be very sociable where I live. I hung a feeder from a tree near the back of my back yard, but they still buzz me when I sit at my back patio table up close to the house.

Where do they go during winter?

 

[Drew99GT]

They migrate south and to warmer locations - far southern US, Mexico, and central America.

It's funny here at higher elevations...during their last days here in the early fall, they all come out of the mountains and sort of hang out along the high plains for a couple days and they are EVERYWHERE - just scads of them. Have to refill the feeders almost everyday. Then, the first real cold morning we get in fall, they disappear like ghosts. One day my backyard will be a buzz with the suckers screeching around, two days later, GONE.

 

[Papa Bear]

Get a little rust inhibitor on that chain, dude....

 

[WolfCub]

Wow!
Gorgeous shot.
Love the contrast between the orange feathers and the green background. It's really sharp considering how fast they move.

What type of camera do you have?

 

[GMBoy]

That is a perfect shot. I am impressed at the quality of that shot! NICE!

 

[rjundi]

I am waiting till late spring for mine to come the window and peck to remind me to put our feeder.

 

[mckennaiii]

I can't wait for them to arrive here in Virginia in the spring and sad to see them leave in the fall. Been feeding them for about ten years. Before my mom passed away I set up two feeders for her and she loved to sit at the kitchen table and sit on the breezway and watch them. They are such a joy to watch. The past several years in April they will arrive at my bay window and just hover there as to say, "I'm here now, where is my food".

 

[Virtuoso]

That is a spectacular picture - kudos to the photographer. Must be a nice camera too. We used to have a hummingbird feeder at my parents..I should hang one here this year. They were amazing things to watch.

 

[Drew99GT]

Do it. Hang more than one on both sides of your house. I can sit and watch them for hours. If there's a ton of them and you stay very still next to a feeder, you can get them to land on your finger. Twice I've had one land on my finger, and the air coming off their wings is actually really cold! I'm surprised they don't have little contrails from pressure drop and moisture condensation like the wingtips on a jet!.

 

[Pablo]

Great shot! I can't wait 'till ours come back..........soon!!

 

[Shannow]

When we lived in Bendigo, there was a tree out the front of our front window that had deep flowers and nectar (can't remember which one...35 years ago). The humming birds were awesome.

I think that with their metabolism and energy requirements, holding a gaze at us through the window would have been ages to them.