{"id":221,"date":"2008-07-25T10:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/?p=221"},"modified":"2008-07-25T10:51:31","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T16:51:31","slug":"rufous-wings-hummingbird-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/rufous-wings-hummingbird-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"rufous wings &#8211; hummingbird photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A male rufous speeds back and forth from his guard post on an aspen branch to the feeder to defend against all incoming sippers.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/_mg_4998.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-223\" title=\"defending rufous\" src=\"http:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/_mg_4998.jpg\" alt=\"rufous hummingbird\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/_mg_4998.jpg 450w, https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/_mg_4998-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Being the dominate rufous at my house would not be so difficult, but feeders on every side of the house make defending from a single branch impossible.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Watching all the feeders throughout the day, I see sippers I might think were\u00a0being denied\u00a0if I watched\u00a0only watch one feeder. Broadtails are still about, but rufous attempts to rule.<\/p>\n<p>Capturing perfectly sharp stills of\u00a0hovering hummingbirds&#8217; wings was a bit of an obsession for me in the 2005 &#8211; 2006 hummingbird seasons here in Consworld.\u00a0 Now, as I continue to experiment with both natural light and flash hummingbird photography, I&#8217;m\u00a0favoring the blurred wing images over the sharper ones.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/_mg_4997.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-222\" title=\"wing pattern\" src=\"http:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/_mg_4997.jpg\" alt=\"hovering rufous\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/_mg_4997.jpg 450w, https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/_mg_4997-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even with the bill shadow cast on the bird by the midday sun, I like this photo, but might remove the shadow before printing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A male rufous speeds back and forth from his guard post on an aspen branch to the feeder to defend against all incoming sippers.\u00a0\u00a0 Being the dominate rufous at my house would not be so difficult, but feeders on every side of the house make defending from a single branch impossible.\u00a0 Watching all the feeders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hummingbirds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/condaily.com\/consworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}