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Bird Photography, Female Ruby Throated hummingbird, hummer, Hummingbird, hummingbird photography, Ruby Throated
Ruby Throated Hummingbird!
21 Tuesday Jul 2015
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Sally Wood Nature Photography
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Amazing photo!❤
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Thanks John,,, I don’t catch them very well, very often!
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Beautiful clarity, bokeh, and framing of this little beauty.
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Incredible!
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Your photographs are amazing!
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Awe.. thank you so much.. I enjoy sharing them!
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sweet capture, Sally! our resident Anna’s male is rasping away in the backyard right now. he likes to advertise his presence to one and all. 🙂
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Lovely… please post a photo if you get a chance… When I visited my son we went down to Green Back Farm on Whidbey Island and found some Anna’s . I believe… I will post one!
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Sally,
Here are a few (last week was hummingbird week at my blog 🙂 ). The first link shows the money shot, and the rest are juveniles or females.
Cheers,
Hui
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Very special! Just lovely! What gear do you use??
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Canon EOS 6D and a Sigma f5-6.3 150-500mm APO DG OS HSM telephoto. on occasion, I get to use my Canon EF 100 f/2.8 mm macro lens when the hummingbirds get really close. 🙂
all my hummer shots are handheld. it’s too much to ask of them to keep still for very long! 🙂
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I use a Nikon D4 with a 70-200mm 2.8 and a 2x teleconverter on a tripod … most of the time…. with the photo of the Anna’s that I just posted.. I had a 24-70mm 2.8 on my Nikon d4 and it was handheld… it was the middle of the winter and they were waiting for the nectar to unfreeze… it was after that weird snowstorm they got there right at Thanksgiving. Do you live near right in Vancouver?
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nice gear, Sally! I’ve gotten a bit spoiled with the 500mm lens as this was my second lens and I wanted to shoot wildlife without spooking them. that said, I prefer to be able to get close to my subjects (if they let me!) 🙂
cold temps make the Anna’s reluctant to move around, which makes it a great time to photograph them up close!
yes, I live in Vancouver. 🙂 we had that sub-zero cold snap (-10 C) around the time of the American Thanksgiving last year, and I was able to photograph the hummies from a foot away with the macro lens.
right now, our backyard hummer regulars will also let us get really close to them, too. or should I say, they will pop up and feed from the flowers from less than a foot away (I can feel the wind from their wingbeats in my face! 🙂 )
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I know … they are just so unique… I am visiting again in Sept.. and hope to catch some photos.. most of my gear is “geared” towards family, children’s, wedding, engagement photography, but I love the nature as well… it is my “relaxing ” photography… if when I am visiting we decide to head up Vancouver way I will let you know.. I will be there for two weeks in Sept!
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thanks for the heads up, Sally! fall is the best time to see the migratory birds in action at the Reifel Bird Sanctuary in Ladner!
cheers,
Hui
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Cool, will check with my son to see if he is familiar with Ladner! I did get to see the thousands of snow geese that come down from Canada to the Skagit Valley, when I was there this past spring.
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definitely the snow geese are spectacular to watch during fall and spring. 🙂
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