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Frank ess wrote:
Another hummingbird http://www.fototime.com/1954BEC64DA5D3E/orig.jpg http://www.fototime.com/D0211BB755D7396/orig.jpg Nice. Also shows that 'raindrops' aren't "raindrop" shaped. :] -- Ken Tough |
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Charles Kooij wrote:
Jer wrote: Charles Kooij wrote: Frank ess wrote: Another hummingbird http://www.fototime.com/1954BEC64DA5D3E/orig.jpg http://www.fototime.com/D0211BB755D7396/orig.jpg Nice. Thanks for posting those. Is that a wild hummingbird? ck I think Frank has a leash for it, though on occasion he lets it out of the house to terrorize the neighbourhood kids with it's impression of a bumble bee. We've adminished Frank for this in the past, but as you can see, he never listens. Lol. Some people never listen, eh? Such a shocker. I guess, thinking about it, the concept of a tame hummingbird is just a *little* odd. ck I think he may have been thinking of "free" as opposed to captive hummingbirds like the ones I have photo'd at the San Diego Zoo, in a very pleasant enclosure where you can sit and wait for the right pose (and protect your equipment from the fine mist supplied by thoughtful husbanders). Yes, it's a wild bird. On warm days he enjoys zipping in and out of the spillover from the birdbath, or sitting under a drip from a tree branch I've misted with the garden hose. This should give a better idea of what is happening: http://www.fototime.com/DAAEC860A747A30/orig.jpg Canon 20D, Canon EF 70-300 DO IS 1/1600 f/5.6 ISO 800 300mm Usually if he and his partner are within sight of our back door, they will zoom past my face and perch for a few seconds on a branch a few feet away, then go on about their business. Sort of confirming their domain, I reckon. One year the local chief hummer poised himself about six inches in front of my nose, for fifteen or twenty seconds, just humming away and staring me in the (prescription lens-covered) eye. Communing with nature is some kind of joyful. -- Frank ess |
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Charles Kooij wrote:
Jer wrote: Charles Kooij wrote: Frank ess wrote: Another hummingbird http://www.fototime.com/1954BEC64DA5D3E/orig.jpg http://www.fototime.com/D0211BB755D7396/orig.jpg Nice. Thanks for posting those. Is that a wild hummingbird? ck I think Frank has a leash for it, though on occasion he lets it out of the house to terrorize the neighbourhood kids with it's impression of a bumble bee. We've adminished Frank for this in the past, but as you can see, he never listens. Lol. Some people never listen, eh? Such a shocker. I guess, thinking about it, the concept of a tame hummingbird is just a *little* odd. ck I think he may have been thinking of "free" as opposed to captive hummingbirds like the ones I have photo'd at the San Diego Zoo, in a very pleasant enclosure where you can sit and wait for the right pose (and protect your equipment from the fine mist supplied by thoughtful husbanders). Yes, it's a wild bird. On warm days he enjoys zipping in and out of the spillover from the birdbath, or sitting under a drip from a tree branch I've misted with the garden hose. This should give a better idea of what is happening: http://www.fototime.com/DAAEC860A747A30/orig.jpg Canon 20D, Canon EF 70-300 DO IS 1/1600 f/5.6 ISO 800 300mm Usually if he and his partner are within sight of our back door, they will zoom past my face and perch for a few seconds on a branch a few feet away, then go on about their business. Sort of confirming their domain, I reckon. One year the local chief hummer poised himself about six inches in front of my nose, for fifteen or twenty seconds, just humming away and staring me in the (prescription lens-covered) eye. Communing with nature is some kind of joyful. -- Frank ess |
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