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Picture Thread: It tells the way, Hummingbirds
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I love hummingbirds. They're so beautiful.
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They're really cool creatures. Too bad my digicam isn't fast enough to capture them.
Its also a shame we don't have many kinds in the upper mid-west. I had relatives who lived in Panama for several years. Yeah, hundreds of varieties. Beautiful birds.
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The hummingbird is an awesome creature. Very nice pictures, thank you for sharing. 
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Join Date: Feb 2005
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Beautiful photos !
I have 13 feeders to fill for them each day. Also a huge mamosa tree
and trumpet vine that help feed the flock.
We are in between the Coastal Range and the Sierra's here and get alot
of varieties that aren't listed in bird books for our area.
I have to rescue them from the cobwebs on my porch alot
this time of year; think they're busy making nests with the web material.
We should have a spectacular crop of babies this year; at the rate all
the adults are drinking and gathering. And it's really not even "hot" here yet.
Mostly 80's daytime and 50's at nite.
Patti~
PS: I too wish my digicam got better shots. (6 yr old Epson; 3 MP)
I do have about 2 hours of video of them; but haven't converted the
footage to QT yet. Looks kinda like a swarm of bees at a hive.
I put planks across a big ladder and hung all the feeders in the one
spot. They all got pretty pissy with each other; haven't done that again.
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Gorgeous! I don't have any "resident" hummingbirds around here-too many neighborhood cats for them to feel really safe, I guess. But when I lived in Panama, we had hummingbirds that were almost the size of robins! Beautiful iridecent blue fellows that drove our (indoor) cats bonkers! My attempts at 35mm photography from inside were decidedly subpar, but boy do we have memories!
What kind of shutter speed did you use to freeze those birds?
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