Hummers!!

All my life I’ve been fascinated with humming birds! So tiny, with wings that wave faster than the eye can see and such delicate precision to their eating!

Our neighbor has a hummingbird feeder and today I had the opportunity to stand and watch until I could capture a hummer on camera. Patience, focusing on the one spot in which this particular one kept hovering, waiting until it drank and then “stepped back” for a moment before diving in again…it was several minutes of trial and error to capture it. (ah-humm…NOW would be a great time for that Canon L series telephoto lens I’ve wanted for a lifetime!) There was a second hummer that kept barging in, and the two kept swapping swats with each other for food space.  They buzzed right by me, their wings singing loudly in a buzzy kind of way…awesome.

I’m going to get myself a feeder.  I need to be closer to these birds (since I don’t have a telephoto lens) and I want to fine tune my capture of them on camera.  This will be a fun project!