The male one dominates his territory!
Forested area and water are perfect for these creatures.
Hummingbird view and perfect mating grounds!
Part II of my weekend brought me to my friend’s home for a wonderful visit and an enjoyable view of his own little paradise of birds. In particular, you are looking at photos of the Anna and Rufous Hummingbirds. These shots I took were NOT easy. A research study found that the Anna’s hummingbird can shake their bodies 55 times per second while in flight. Can you imagine I was able to even get a picture at all? In fact the Rufous hummingbird is known for their incredible flight skills!!! I would say so, but I was blessed to get a few shots to turn out. Enjoy. These were taken in a town called Silverdale, WA with the backdrop of Olympic Mountains and an inlet that has waters coming from the Puget Sound.
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Hummingbirds are wonderful! Thanks for sharing!
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So glad you stopped by!! It was so much fun taking their pics on my friend’s deck. I had such a fun time watching them!
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Amazing! I guess – If you feed them, they will come….. Great shots.
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haha. Thats good!!!
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Great photo! These birds are so difficult to capture, no luck here. A month or so back, they were more common but now they are not hanging out as much. The chirp is easy to hear, letting you know when they are near.
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It was so much fun taking their pictures! I must have shot about 200 until I got the few that are on the blog! haha
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And that is what I tried but never got one image worth a hoot!
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It is really hard!! I know, but my friend has a natural paradise and they were just flying everywhere..That helped me a lot!
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Did you have the camera on the mode Sports? The shutter speed had to be at least 800-1000.
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I had it on A and at times the one that looks like the guy running (that might be mode sports) and also scenic and later in the evening on some. I had no way to tell which ones were working because of my vision is not good and I did not have my computer with me to look at them immediately. I am a work in progress aren’t I? Is there something you see in these that I could have done better? I took many others that just had those little guys really blurry.
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The guy running is Sports and that would have gotten the shutter speed up. A would not, nor would the Night mode. I suspect the keepers were on Sports.
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I still have a lot to learn with this camera. I really enjoyed having it this weekend especially with my friend’s home right on the water in the forest basically! It was breathtaking enjoying the view and all the other little animals we saw up there. There were woodpeckers, steller jays, baby squirrels, raccoons, and other birds I do not know all the names of!
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Alesia You got some good pictures of a difficult subject. Dick
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Dick,
I took a lot of pictures to just get those!! haha It was great fun though. I am learning off that new camera so I really should try and come back and take more photos, but I am afraid I might get ate up by a raccoon!! lol
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