ruby-throated hummingbird

Some of the last shot with the D 80, used a different bg.

We've had more Hummingbirds in the garden in the last week than I've had all summer. I think they are all feeding up on the abundance of flowers here before heading south. They seem to like this blue Salvia better than all the other flowers I have in the gardens including all the fuchsias. I...

Woohoo! At long last I have a Hummingbird for my gallery. I've been incredibly busy in the gardens all summer so no time for my birds except to enjoy them as I attend to the gardening chores. This time of the year we always have a lot of Ruby-throats around and yesterday there were quite a few...

The Boss Hummer came by for a while today and stayed a while. I use the Tamron 200/500 and 4 flashes for these. This one is cropped just a small amount on the right site. They really fill the frame and if they move the slightest you miss part of them.

Hello all, tried this with 3 flashes and natural bg. Just to do something different.

Set up on this shot with a Crape Mrytle in the bg, made it a bit interesting.

"...free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, careless in the care of God. And you count far more to him than birds." Matthew 6:26

The hummers are hot and heavy and the females and other juvies don't stand a chance with this guy. He is constantly on the prowl for invaders.

Finally got one back up. Had a virus in the desktop and took a while to get it fixed. Ended up keeping all the photos in the repair job......just can't find where they are all are. Lost all my favorites and the was the first site I went back and saved. Lesson learned in backing up files.

Probably would have been better to have taken out the oof leaves, but didn't. This photo remindes me of my parents taking me to get my picture taken as a kid. The photographer saying sit right here son, cross you legs, turn a little this way, cross your hands, turn your heads.....hold that chin...

This juvie male thinks he owns the place.

I been showing the approach......now the departure. Hopefully just to the woodline, I should have the another couple of months.

Finally got my Photoshop program to download the photos....boy was that thing a pain. Hope the photos are worth the effort to get them off the camera.

Another of the Hummers of the season. Got some more on the camera but having problems downloading. Guess I have to work on the photoshop program.

summer resident backyard bird.

He acutally allowed me time to photograph him.

Got a bit of unusal lighting on this one as the batteries in one of the flashes died. It seems a lot of effort but I sure have a lot of fun at this.