This gallery contains 3 photos. It is said that the youngest are often the most brash, and, as in the human kingdom, so it is with birds. This fellow has had his “nightcaps” just inches from my face this summer (ever felt the downdraft from a hummingbird’s wings in your face? At 50-80 times per second, it’s like having a personal fan and electronic repeller rolled into one package). Photographed in the evening of August 19.
a young male Anna’s hummingbird by sunset light.
f/6.3, 1/320, 150-500mm telephoto lens, 439mm, ISO 800
Anna’s hummingbirds are all year rounders in Metro Vancouver, Canada. I found out this two years ago when I first met my first Anna’s in the backyard on a late fall day … a jewel of a male, making his acquaintance with the new plastic pink nectar feeder that we had strung up two weeks before (three more nectar feeders have since been added). Male Anna’s take up to a year to fully develop their pink crowns and gorgets. Photographed on August 23.
the same fellow on the old apple tree, photographed shortly before noon.
f/6.3, 1/500, 150-500mm telephoto lens, 500mm, ISO 400, flash on
These flower whisperers do pollinate the blossoms they visit for nectar (although I have yet to see hummingbirds so into their flower nectar that their heads and bills are caked in pollen). Photographed in the evening of August 25.
the same fellow on the hybrid fruit tree. look at all that pink and orange!
f/6.3, 1/320, 150-500mm telephoto lens, 500mm, ISO 5000
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What beautiful pictures, they bring a smile of pleasure to my face.
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thank you, Susan! glad you enjoyed them. 🙂
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Stunners all! Photos, too! I’m sure the males won’t have problems finding mates.
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thank you, Noelle! it’s true — the Anna’s females aren’t too fussy, at least, the ones in Metro Vancouver aren’t. just as long as they get some sort of song and dance! 🙂
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Pretty nice shot….!
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thank you! he is a handsome fellow. 🙂
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Those are just so, so beautiful…I can’t even…getting teary-eyed Seriously!
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I’ll take that as a compliment, Teresa … that my photographs can evoke such powerful emotions! 🙂
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Always! But sometimes even more than other times. 🙂
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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Your photographs are amazing and inspiring. Love these hummingbird images. So sharp you feel you could touch them. Absolutely breathtakingly beautiful.
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thank you very much, Cindy! I envy those people who have had the pleasure of a hummingbird feeding from their hand! 🙂
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Che immagini belllissimi, klsto pe3ciativaves
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grazie, Patrizia!
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Their iridescence is so beautiful!
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thank you, Eliza! the adult male with the completely pink crown came by yesterday, and he just took my breath away. of course, the younger male with the incomplete pink crown wouldn’t stand for the intruder and chased him away. 😦
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it is very nice picture! i love it so much..
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thank you, dian!
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Simply wow…
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oh, he knows he gets our attention every time. 🙂
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Handsome bird love the colours on his head ..
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thank you, Julie! it’s easier to get the juvenile males with the developing crowns and gorgets (and the females). I have never managed a closeup of the adult male in all his pink headed glory — they’re much too wary to be in such close proximity to the lens by then! 😦
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I can’t take photos of birds to save myself 😄
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photographing wildlife takes an extraordinary amount of patience on the photographer’s part, but you also have to be lucky! 🙂
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Oh wow, these are so beautiful. I always find Hummingbirds magical, we don’t have them in the UK so it’s such a pleasure to come across such wonderful photographs. Su
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thank you, Su! it’s always fun to watch them. 🙂
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What beautiful photos, this hummingbird is wonderful.
Thank you for sharing it with us.
I wish you a good day.
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thank you, Hervé!
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Brilliant macros. 😀
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thank you, Cee! they’re not actually macros, but close crops. 🙂
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Oh oh oh I love these. We don’t get hummingbirds here in old Blighty so it’s lovely to see them. Thank you 🙂
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you’re welcome, Elle! there’s a fascinating theory that proposes that the ancestors of hummers originated in Russia. that’s right, the Old World!
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