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I am really envious of you guys with hummers - I'd love to get shots like those!
Difficult to find small birds here in the heat of summer as they tend to hide in the foliage. Yesterday, I was pleased to see a greenfinch actually brave enough to be in the open. Greenfinches are rare this year because of disease. This one was a very handsome male.
Difficult to find small birds here in the heat of summer as they tend to hide in the foliage. Yesterday, I was pleased to see a greenfinch actually brave enough to be in the open. Greenfinches are rare this year because of disease. This one was a very handsome male.
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V nice Alan. Seems the heat is everywhere. I had the same problem yesterday and only got a ... headache in the sun and nothing worthy of posting. So much for my brief work break.
Jack
Jack
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AlanF,
Nice greenfinch shot. We have yellow finch here, though I have not gone out on my deck much this season, too many trips to run around. Today I've to start on a paint project for display in late August, so I set up my gear to shoot between brush strokes ;D . Prefocus and remote release on 5DIII/100-400II.
The yellow finch would get water from the water well in the hummy feeder.
And this year, we have at least 8 girl hummies around near the 2 feeders I set up and they consume about a cup of sugar (4 cups of solution) in less than 2 days! The boys (2 of them) came and they "occupy" a feeder each and that brought the sugar solution consumption down drastically. Don't know which is better, to see them chase around the feeders and bring up my sugar bill
or to see fewer girls and save on sugar 
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-r
Nice greenfinch shot. We have yellow finch here, though I have not gone out on my deck much this season, too many trips to run around. Today I've to start on a paint project for display in late August, so I set up my gear to shoot between brush strokes ;D . Prefocus and remote release on 5DIII/100-400II.
The yellow finch would get water from the water well in the hummy feeder.
And this year, we have at least 8 girl hummies around near the 2 feeders I set up and they consume about a cup of sugar (4 cups of solution) in less than 2 days! The boys (2 of them) came and they "occupy" a feeder each and that brought the sugar solution consumption down drastically. Don't know which is better, to see them chase around the feeders and bring up my sugar bill
or to see fewer girls and save on sugar .-r
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Those are some excellent hummingbird pictures! Your feeder is located such that lighting is very good - I had some trouble in Suriname with them due to overcast sky and bright white flowers that they were visiting... Your pictures show the colour of their plumage so much better...
Wiebe.
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I couldn't resist...
Still some more - I already posted some "in Flight" in the BiF thread - but here also some stationary
Scarlet Ibis (Young adult - not yet completely coloured)
Still some more - I already posted some "in Flight" in the BiF thread - but here also some stationary
Scarlet Ibis (Young adult - not yet completely coloured)
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