Doing the broadtail boogie, this hummingbird posed for me and the camera yesterday. After a quick sip from a flower, this hummer struck several hovering poses in front of the camera probably trying to get me to back off and stay away from the flowers.
This might be an immature rufous, I see them every year at this time and wonder about the ID. It’s hard to get good hummer ID information on the females and young, while easy to find photos and descriptions of the colorful males.
This hummingbird was acting like a male rufous and has some of [...]
Let the hummer wars begin.
Rufous is here now guarding the flowers and feeders and chasing all others away. The broadtails are sneaking in to the feeder when they can for a quick sip and early this morning before there was enough light for photographing it, a male calliope hummingbird was here for a drink.
Rufous [...]
The broadtails are fighting over favorite perches near the currant bushes loaded with tiny pink flowers. They like perches with a 360 degree view so they can see the competition coming. Sitting on the tip of a dead branch, the hummingbird looks left, right, and back twisting and turning his head above late May’s food [...]
This broad-tail hummingbird’s image was captured just after sunset this evening as he sat on a choke cherry branch with ponderosa boughs in the background. The late afternoon rain left everything dripping and the clouds reflected nice colors long after sunset. Shot at 1/250 sec, f/6.3, ISO 400, with 70-300mm lens at 300mm.
Yesterday morning I [...]
Spring has finally pushed winter aside. Fox kits are emerging from their dens, hummingbirds are fighting over feeders and wax currant flowers, and raindrops are replacing snowflakes. Just over a week ago, we had a foot of snow with phone and power outages (again!) and ice on the windshields last Monday morning. But now, the [...]
At dusk Saturday evening I was shooting a broadtail hummer in an aspen, but it was too dark to get a good shot, so I shot the moon. Here are both the moon and the bird:
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