Name: tarev San Joaquin County, CA (Zone 9b) Give PEACE a chance!
Thanks Tee It takes me awhile to focus on them way up there, hard to see them..sooo small little ones! They seem to have such sensitive feeling of someone or something looking at them..they hop from branch to branch so fast
Name: tarev San Joaquin County, CA (Zone 9b) Give PEACE a chance!
I am using Canon PhotoShot S5 IS. Have to do full zoom to catch them ... easy if they are just by the feeders, but quite hard finding them when they hit the branches. Am just your ordinary point and shoot person
Same here ... point and shoot. If the camera doesn't do the work for me, I'm sunk. My current camera has great macros but takes a bit too much adjusting the settings for me to get really good distance shots. A lot of them come out a bit out of focus. Doesn't stop me from trying though. Sometimes I get lucky.
I'm thinking that my 'winter' hummers are gone. I did spot one hummer yesterday, but it looked different, as far as I could tell. It was nectaring on the salvias.
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. E. B.White
Integrity can never be taken. It can only be given, and I wasn't going to give it up to these people. Gary Mowad
LindaTX8 said:I'm thinking that my 'winter' hummers are gone. I did spot one hummer yesterday, but it looked different, as far as I could tell. It was nectaring on the salvias.
I'll be watching for them here, Linda. Can't wait!
It's official! This time I got a good look and it was a small male Black-chinned! Those are the species that stay for the hot season here, so definitely a spring migrant. Now I want pics!
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. E. B.White
Integrity can never be taken. It can only be given, and I wasn't going to give it up to these people. Gary Mowad
Name: tarev San Joaquin County, CA (Zone 9b) Give PEACE a chance!
Yesterday, I deliberately did not refill the nectar feeders, hoping the hummingbirds will look around and go near the Kniphofia blooms. I have noticed they ignore the blooms if they have the feeders well stocked
And finally, the little ones aimed for the Kniphofia blooms
Today, I do not see any of my hummies or other birds, we are in for a week long rainy weather...