Hummingbird

[ronwoodcraft]

It was feeding on the sweet peas that grow on my garden fence.

 

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[Chadeaux]

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing those pics! An ingenious bit of engineering, isn't it?

 

[Megalodon]

Beautiful hummingbird worthy of these magnificent pictures.

 

[Underwonder]

Great photos!

 

[tamrock]

Absolutely Beautiful Shots Ron

 

[Kray Gelder]

Remarkable detail and beauty you captured there Ron. The lighting is fantastic!

 

[WannaDig3687]

Lovely!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Beautiful photos!

 

[old digger]

Fantastic shots!

 

[ronwoodcraft]

Many Thanks Everyone!.....Fortunately, this was an unafraid cooperative little bird....I was using a 70-200 lens that will not focus closer than 3.9' from the end of the lens. Once while the hummer was working on the flowers, it flew directly toward me and hovered about a foot in front of my lens for a few seconds, then went back to the sweet peas.

 

[ronwoodcraft]

Remarkable detail and beauty you captured there Ron. The lighting is fantastic!

Thanks Kray,
Morning sunlight slightly diffused by high thin clouds to soften the light, but still allowed a super fast shutter speed for the fast birds...ISO 400, F4, and a 1/4000 shutter speed.

 

[A2coins]

Those birds are really cool dont see them often

 

[Megalodon]

I've come back a few times to see what I'm not seeing at my hummingbird feeders.

Do you plant those sweet peas just for the hummingbirds? I'd like to try some on a trellis. The sugar water solution in my feeders goes bad after a few days and the ants get into them too. I'd rather try those sweet pea flowers!

 

[ronwoodcraft]

I've come back a few times to see what I'm not seeing at my hummingbird feeders.

Do you plant those sweet peas just for the hummingbirds? I'd like to try some on a trellis. The sugar water solution in my feeders goes bad after a few days and the ants get into them too. I'd rather try those sweet pea flowers!

I think the sweet peas are wild and come up every year, and climb the inside of my garden fence. They produce a lot of seeds, and from what I have read they need to be planted in fall or early spring....I think they have to go through a stratification process before they'll sprout. ( About four to six weeks of cold weather. ).....I plan to plant some of these and some multicolored sweet peas along the fence this fall....
I have the sugar water feeder out too, but I like to take pictures of the hummers feeding on flowers....They're also attracted to zinnias, salvias, and sunflowers.

 

[Megalodon]

Thanks Ron,
We had salvia but the deer ate it to the ground. The research continues for plants that would attract hummingbirds but not be so attractive to deer. Otherwise, I'll have to fence in a garden area since the deer are here daily.

 

[ronwoodcraft]

Thanks Ron,
We had salvia but the deer ate it to the ground. The research continues for plants that would attract hummingbirds but not be so attractive to deer. Otherwise, I'll have to fence in a garden area since the deer are here daily.

Yeah, I think that's the only reason I have sweet peas....They grow on the inside of the garden fence. Any vines that grow through to the outside of the fence gets chewed off....Have also learned to plant zinnias and salvias in the garden, protected by the deer fence.

 

[RustyGold]

Beautiful capture of our favorite birds. We have three feeders in the yard at the moment which the Orioles share with the two baby hummers that were born in our orange tree. Again just beautiful, well done photos of the hummers.