Tag: hummingbird

Visit and feed.

Throughout the day and every day for more than two weeks, two immature and/or female Ruby-throated Hummingbirds contested the right to visit and feed from our feeders. Here is one of them, photographed from about 2.5 meters away. Image appears a bit out of focus due to shooting through the kitchen window screen.

The contests and visits abruptly ended about a week ago. We have seen no activity since, so we believe they began the long journey south. We will keep the feeders out and filled for any migrants that come this way during the next little while

Hummingbird.

This hummingbird (almost certainly a Ruby-Throated, do not know if it is a female or an immature one) visits this feeder outside our kitchen window many times daily. I was about 3 meters away and shooting through the window screen with my 75-300mm lens at maximum zoom.

First sighting

First sighting

Yesterday we saw the first Ruby-throated Hummingbird of this season. This male visited our feeder during a very blustery afternoon. It is still around today. They are such incredible and intrepid animals, flying such distances. I posted my sighting on the Ontario Hummingbird Project web site.

Hummingbirds

Hummingbirds

The hummingbirds are building fat reserves for their long migration south. We have at least three visiting and sparring over our feeder. We watch this male and two others, possibly females and/or juveniles, regularly visit in the evening. This morning before 7AM, before the sun had risen, the male and another were at one another. They will not be around too much longer.

This photo is not the greatest. It was taken with a Fuji Finepix S5200 on autofocus at max optical/digital zoom (18x if I recall). Handheld, distance about 27 feet.

Hummingbird

Hummingbird

A hummingbird visited our backyard feeder the other evening. As it fed, then paused, then fed again and again I swooped up the camera, removed the lens cap, turned it on, focussed on the feeder, zoomed in tight, tripped the shutter . . . the instant it turned away to fly off. I will keep trying.