What kind of hummingbird is this? CC most welcome

LitoD80 · Jul 30, 2008

Those who have seen some of my images before know that hummingbirds are not my thing. However, this past weekend I was at a friends who has a feeder and this little bird just shouted "Nice D80!; take my picture".

Anyway, what kind of hummer is this? I am sure the BIF crowed can help me identify it. BTW, these are from southern Ontario, Canada, lakes area.

All with D-80 on tripod and IR remote; 70-300 VR @ 180; ƒ 8; SB-800 for fill and eye reflection. All pics are a 50% crop (1/4 of the image area) to eliminate feeder and other useless info. Hey, I feel lucky he was in the frame at all!

I welcome your CC!

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lac111 · Jul 30, 2008

I can only see the last three shots, but well done, really nice work. Just a tad too much flash IMO. ; ) Almost positive it's a female Anna's Hummingbird.
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Teresa_H · Jul 30, 2008

Yes, the first 4 aren't showing up. The other 3 though look good. I'm always amazed that people can get such good shots of hummingbirds.

I think identification is a job for Hide!

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Hide Takahashi · Jul 30, 2008

Hi Lito,

Surprised to see you posting hummer shots.

Nice shots. If you didn't tell me where you live,I would've agreed with Lora and that I would've said it's a female Anna's. But Anna's range is Western North America. The only hummer you can see in your area as well as east cost and mid west of US is Ruby-throated.

This one looks to be immature female Ruby-throated. Hopefully,you'll be able to see a male RB hummer at your friend's backyard.

Hide
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lac111 · Jul 30, 2008

Hide Takahashi said:
Hi Lito,
If you didn't tell me where you live,I would've agreed with Lora and that I
would've said it's a female Anna's.

That was nice of you to CMA Hide. ; ) As I was typing that I wondered if Anna's were in eastern Canada, obviously not...Many of the females look very similar.
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LitoD80 · Jul 31, 2008

lac111 said:
I can only see the last three shots, but well done, really nice work.

Thank you. I now seem to have fixed the problem with the pics. not loading. Try re-load if you can't see them.

lac111 said:
Just a tad too much flash IMO. ; )

I wondered about that... I felt I needed to find a compromise between too much flash and downplaying the bright background. Probably I should have place the camera on a different position, but I was on a ledge with very little room as it was and fear for my gear to go flying (excuse the pun

)

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LitoD80 · Jul 31, 2008

Teresa_H said:
Yes, the first 4 aren't showing up. The other 3 though look good.

Thanks. I think I fixed the bug with the pics.

Teresa_H said:
I'm always amazed that people can get such good shots of hummingbirds.

You and me both! I was thrill to see I manage to get the little guy (gal?) on the frame, but, you are only looking at 50% of the actual picture. I had to shoot knowing I would have to crop.

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LitoD80 · Jul 31, 2008

Hide Takahashi said:
Hi Lito,

Surprised to see you posting hummer shots.

I know. Hey, work with what you have I say

Hide Takahashi said:
Nice shots.

Thanks again

Hide Takahashi said:
If you
didn't tell me where you live,I would've agreed with Lora and that I
would've said it's a female Anna's. But Anna's range is Western North
America. The only hummer you can see in your area as well as east
cost and mid west of US is Ruby-throated.

I will look it up now that I know, and share my findings with my friend.

Hide Takahashi said:
This one looks to be immature female Ruby-throated. Hopefully,you'll
be able to see a male RB hummer at your friend's backyard.

Well, it is their holiday spot and they are 400 Km. away (and only accessible by boat), so it will not be easy. However, now I'll know what to look for and how to set up the day I go back. Are these year around birds? Will I also see them in the fall?

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LitoD80 · Jul 31, 2008

This is an approximate location of where I shot, in case it is of interest:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=kahshe+lake+ontario+canada&sll=44.855869,-79.286957&sspn=0.470202,0.582962&ie=UTF8&ll=44.853655,-79.262825&spn=15.045593,18.654785&z=6

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Teresa_H · Jul 31, 2008

Oh Yay! Glad you got the other links to work! Love the first and third ones - lovely detail.

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Dan Bolger · Jul 31, 2008

Beautiful captures Lito!

I had a few last summer here in our garden (London Ontario), but with the 18-200mm couldn't get close enough to get a shot. Oh well we enjoyed them anyways.

You did a splendid job, as they seem to be very skittish.

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Hide Takahashi · Jul 31, 2008

LitoD80 said:
. Are these year
around birds? Will I also see them in the fall?

I don't think they are year-around birds in the eastern part of US Canada and people living in these regions know when RT hummers are leaving. My guess is one more month.

Hide

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Mike Larson · Jul 31, 2008

LitoD80, your photos are of a female Ruby-throated Hummingbird. I guess there is a very slight chance that is a young male, but by this time it would probably have a red feather or two in its gorget.

The yellow on the feathers in your photos is from too much flash. It is difficult to get the right balance between available light and flash but it helps to shoot in bright sunlight if you can.

The fall migration will be starting soon here in Tennessee and I expect a lot of activity around our feeders as they build up their weight for the long journey to Central America. They will be gone from here by mid-October.

Here are a couple of photos from last year of females.

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lac111 · Jul 31, 2008

Mike Larson said:
The yellow on the feathers in your photos is from too much flash.

I've always heard that, but I'm not so sure since I've gotten some shots taken with no flash which exhibit some yellow feathering. Maybe a factor of light direction too? That irridescence is pretty tricky. By the way I remember seeing these incredibly excellent shots.

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Russ4evr · Jul 31, 2008

Down south here we call that a yellow bellied sap sucker. :> )
Russ
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LitoD80 · Jul 31, 2008

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LitoD80 · Jul 31, 2008

Dan Bolger said:
Beautiful captures Lito!

Thank you

Dan Bolger said:
I had a few last summer here in our garden (London Ontario), but with
the 18-200mm couldn't get close enough to get a shot. Oh well we
enjoyed them anyways.

You did a splendid job, as they seem to be very skittish.

Well, I did get these at 180 mm, so you will be OK with the 200 for sure. However, the trick was based on knowing the position of the feeder, which allowed me to a) pre-focus in manual and b) keep my distance from the area by using the IR from ± 25 feet away. The distance seemed to be good enough to keep the bird happy.

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LitoD80 · Jul 31, 2008

Wow! Those are some very nice images! Thank you for sharing.

Mike Larson wrote:
...

Mike Larson said:
The yellow on the feathers in your photos is from too much flash. It
is difficult to get the right balance between available light and
flash but it helps to shoot in bright sunlight if you can.

Really? I thought that they'd looked that way to my naked eye as well. Then again, I know zippo about birds in general.

I know what you mean by balance. The feeder is in the shade and the background was very bright. This is why I had probably more than 50% flash... To create more separation with the background.

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kithg · Jul 31, 2008

Beautiful shots and the first and last are hands down my favorites. The last especially. Nice opportunity, well taken advantage of!
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morris · Jul 31, 2008

You did a super job with these Lito.

Morris

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