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Published: 2007-01-17 15:28:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 783; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 14
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Fat hummer in my back yard, its guarding the feeder
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Thank you...really glad you like it
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Hey, someone else got as close to a hummer as I did! Nice pic, and he does look a bit rotund compared to my guy. [link] I've posted a few, pics, but I am saving the majority of the macro shots to see if I can do something special with them. Mine hangs out in an apple tree, but I see him less now than I used to... I suspect one of my neighbors may have put up a feeder. You have a nice gallery, and I will take some time to properly go through it sometime soon.
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Wow, really great shot. I'd like to see a hummingbird some day, the problem is that they don't live here :> How big (or small : D) was this bird?
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wow he is fat !! where do you live that you have them in yard this late in winter ..
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Central coast of California and they all disappeared a day or two after I posted the photo
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It's funny that you called him(he's a ruby throated hummingbird, I believe, but he might be one of the three that look like that) fat. ^_^ He's so cute all fluffed up like that, guarding a feeder? No surprise for a male. Hummingbirds are surprisingly territorial.
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You are correct, it is a ruby throated hummingbird, females will also guard the feeder and even chase off their offspring
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Err...Ruby Throats don't have red heads, that's an Anna's. You live in California anyway, Rubys don't range nearly that far west.
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Hehe it's ok. I've been watching them at my feeder for the past couple weeks.
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Amazing shot. Perfect focus!
He is a chunky little thing.
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Thanks, very chunky, maybe I should take the feeder down
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So cute!!! I love all the details of the feathers!!!
Such a wonderful bird! The eye.............
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Thank you very much, now if I could only get him to turn a little bit, so all the colors show
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You're very welcome! Maybe next time?
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Beautiful capture. Very clear and crisp. All my attempted shots turn out blurry. It's so hard to catch one being still. Maybe being fat slowed him down enough.
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Thank you very much, I have several shot of them being still, for me capturing them moving is the hard part
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Glorious detail, Ernie. Is he really fat or just puffing out his feathers? Presumably not against the cold anyway
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Thanks Aidan, he's been looking this way for a couple of days, and we had temps below 30F (1C)degrees for 4 days this week, very cold for around here
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Oh, wow - that's a good bit colder than it's been here, where it's been a most unseasonably mild winter. It must have felt bitter to a hummer!
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We have had mild weather, with very little rain, just this one cold spell so far, as for the hummer, maybe thats why he sit in this bush so much, right out in the sun.
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I thought he was just posing for you...
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Gorgeous shot
I love the iridescence that comes through.
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Thank you, qorgeous little bird
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Thank you, it has nice of him to hold still for me
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What an excellent shot of the hummer! I'm glad he will pose for you.
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Thank you, I shot this from 6', which is the min. focal dist. on the lens, he would have let me get closer
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Unbelievably beautiful capture Ernie. I love the fabulous detail in the feathers, the beautiful colours, and the eye. Wonderful.
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great shot of a beautiful little bird
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