Hummingbird

Mine'sAPint · Post by **Mine'sAPint** » Wed Jun 08, 2011 10:37 pm 0

I was pleasantly surprised last year when I discovered we had hummingbirds visiting our garden. Now I've just spotted a nest in the branches of the tree right outside our bedroom window

The nest is tiny and appears to be made from spider webs and flakes of lichen. I'll try and get some photos of hovering and hopefully in the near future some chicks!

Mine'sAPint · Post by **Mine'sAPint** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 4:48 am 0

I removed the flyscreen from the other part of the window and got a better shot from a little bit closer. Attempts to photograph in the air are miserable failures so far...

DanPhillips · Post by **DanPhillips** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 5:57 am 0

Fab,

Setup a feeder, they hover around it, if you wear red you can stand right next to it

If you are patient...put some red food coloring in the fake necter (sugar and water, 13 table spoon full in 500 mils of water) put it in the palm of your hand and sit near the feeder...
They don't mind flash photography, I guess they think it's just lightning...

I've taken some good pictures of the little jet fighters

Cheers

Dan

Mine'sAPint · Post by **Mine'sAPint** » Thu Jun 09, 2011 11:13 pm 0

Thanks for the tips Dan. Feel free to hijack the thread and post some of your pictures, I'd love to see them!

DanPhillips · Post by **DanPhillips** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 4:43 am 0

Here's a couple

PFVA · Post by **PFVA** » Fri Jun 10, 2011 7:56 pm 0

Awwww... they're so cute, all of them

Mine'sAPint · Post by **Mine'sAPint** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 9:38 pm 0

We now have two tiny hummingbird chicks

Struggling to get them in focus, the camera's auto focus just doesn't want to focus on the birds combined with the tree blowing around a narrow depth of field.

Hummingbird chick, that's its tongue!

Two beaks.

Hoping to catch some feeding next time.

Mine'sAPint · Post by **Mine'sAPint** » Fri Jul 01, 2011 10:38 pm 0

Whoa, just witnessed some feeding! I was so excited I completely forgot to select a reasonable shutter speed, these are the best I got. Bit annoyed about that little piece of tree being in the way, this is the only angle I can shoot from though.

PFVA · Post by **PFVA** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 7:22 pm 0

Awwwwwww

VNVObit · Post by **VNVObit** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 7:25 pm 0

PFVA wrote:Awwwwwww

+1

Lovely photos

Mine'sAPint · Post by **Mine'sAPint** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 5:46 pm 0

Our little guests are growing up and moving on...

Getting bigger every day...

Then yesterday this little one had made it a few feet from the nest, hopping and flapping between branches:

Leaving the other one behind:

And this morning there is an empty nest.

but also

PFVA · Post by **PFVA** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 7:32 pm 0

Awwwwww Happy End

venusian · Post by **venusian** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 8:29 am 0

Don't often look in Fluffy Photos but I'm glad I did today. Great photos, lovely little birds.

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 8:40 am 0

Great photos and a nice little story, to boot.

merman · Post by **merman** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 10:16 am 0

Wow, fantastic!

YakYak

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