Ruby throated hummingbird female
Sunday, August 27th, 2006
Warren, Connecticut. I was at the feed store getting bird seed for our other feeders and because I’m so in awe of Carlos’s hummingbird shots I figured, in honor of him I’d give it a try. So I bought this feeder and hung it up on the gutter outside the living room window. The window is double paned and gas-filled so not a great thing to shoot through. And, I’ve never shot one of these birds before. And its raining out and dark so even though I was on a tripod shutter speed was slow and this bird is vibrating both in the eating process and in the rain deflection process. Excuses, excuses.
She had just eaten and her tongue is still out at the tip of her beak. I didn’t know what that thing was until I started poking around on flickr. Stay tuned, I know I can do better than this and it’s fun.
Here she is eating.
