Thanks, Mia. The hummers have a really nice green. Up close the feathers on their backs look like scales. This post form August 2011 gives you an idea of the look of scales on their back. https://photoofthedayetc.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/fly-away/. I have series of a humming bird feeding on Echinacea I took in 2010, before the blog, that shows it’s back very clearly. I thought I had posted them, but apparently I never did. I’ll have to find those photos and post them.
Thank you Tim, for the link. I adore the photo, green on green, and you’re right the feather do look like scales, he looks like a little fish from the back. I’ve got several Grevilleas which the hummingbirds seem to enjoy. I hope you can find the rest of the photos, they would make a great post and I would love to see more of these little guys.
Hi Mia. Humming birds are funny. They will fly up and hover in front of me, but when I point the camera at them the move off to one side of the other, making it difficult to photograph them hovering close by. I think they see their reflections in the lens.
Hi Tim, they are funny and interesting. I bet your right, the reflection may throw them off, thinking it’s another bird. Have you ever watched a paired set do the dive bombing ritual? I’ve never seen anything dive that fast and then pull up.
Our hummers are like little Kamikazes — they dive bomb other birds and each other. They also tease the cats when the cats are in the catio, by buzzing them just out side the wire and just out of reach of their kitty paws. There was a pair dive bombing something in one of our trees yesterday. I walked over to see what it was. I didn’t see anything obvious, but they just kept bombing back and forth in a large arc and flying between me and the tree, as if I wasn’t there. I walked off and they were still going at it. Might have just been a practice session — I thought I heard squeaky little “Banzai!” yells every time they streaked by.
“Banzai”, laughing! Exactly! I don’t know that much about the hummingbird, I do know they tease my cats, but I had no idea they bomb other birds. They look so fragile and pretty, naturally I would think they’re sweet, but in reality they could be quite aggressive. Fortunately they’e good pilots and I haven’t been hit by one yet.
Hummingbirds are very aggressive and super territorial. I’ve seen them chase sparrows into a rose bush and then wait on a branch fro the sparrows to come out and start chasing them again. It’s a good they they are tiny little birds or they would take over the world.
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Lovely photos.
Thanks, Julia!
You have a wealth of wildlife to photograph out there 🙂
Yes. And I don’t even bother with the after hours wildlife downtown.
Those animals downtown are too wild 😉
Beautiful photos Tim. I love the iridescent green of the hummingbird and his image reflected in the water, always a stunning sky. ~ Mia
Thanks, Mia. The hummers have a really nice green. Up close the feathers on their backs look like scales. This post form August 2011 gives you an idea of the look of scales on their back. https://photoofthedayetc.wordpress.com/2011/08/24/fly-away/. I have series of a humming bird feeding on Echinacea I took in 2010, before the blog, that shows it’s back very clearly. I thought I had posted them, but apparently I never did. I’ll have to find those photos and post them.
Thank you Tim, for the link. I adore the photo, green on green, and you’re right the feather do look like scales, he looks like a little fish from the back. I’ve got several Grevilleas which the hummingbirds seem to enjoy. I hope you can find the rest of the photos, they would make a great post and I would love to see more of these little guys.
Hi Mia. Humming birds are funny. They will fly up and hover in front of me, but when I point the camera at them the move off to one side of the other, making it difficult to photograph them hovering close by. I think they see their reflections in the lens.
Hi Tim, they are funny and interesting. I bet your right, the reflection may throw them off, thinking it’s another bird. Have you ever watched a paired set do the dive bombing ritual? I’ve never seen anything dive that fast and then pull up.
Our hummers are like little Kamikazes — they dive bomb other birds and each other. They also tease the cats when the cats are in the catio, by buzzing them just out side the wire and just out of reach of their kitty paws. There was a pair dive bombing something in one of our trees yesterday. I walked over to see what it was. I didn’t see anything obvious, but they just kept bombing back and forth in a large arc and flying between me and the tree, as if I wasn’t there. I walked off and they were still going at it. Might have just been a practice session — I thought I heard squeaky little “Banzai!” yells every time they streaked by.
“Banzai”, laughing! Exactly! I don’t know that much about the hummingbird, I do know they tease my cats, but I had no idea they bomb other birds. They look so fragile and pretty, naturally I would think they’re sweet, but in reality they could be quite aggressive. Fortunately they’e good pilots and I haven’t been hit by one yet.
Hummingbirds are very aggressive and super territorial. I’ve seen them chase sparrows into a rose bush and then wait on a branch fro the sparrows to come out and start chasing them again. It’s a good they they are tiny little birds or they would take over the world.
I’m glad I wasn’t drinking anything when I read that last line! Wow, lying in wait, now I’ve got to really keep my eyes on them.
The hummingbird hovering over the ditch looks otherworldly, Tim. And the sunset photos are stunning…such vivid colors.
Thanks, Cathy!
Love the glow after sunset!
Thanks, Tiny!
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