Hummingbirds from Today - Hey Gale! Using that 70-300

Hey Gale - These are all with the 70-300!

Here are a couple shots from this evenings Hummingbird shoot.

"What are you doing"

NIKON D70s    ---    300mm    f/5.6    1/400s   

"In Flight"

NIKON D70s    ---    300mm    f/5.6    1/500s   

"Way up there"

NIKON D70s    ---    300mm    f/9.0    1/500s   

"Final Approach"

NIKON D70s    ---    300mm    f/5.6    1/500s   

"Give me some food!"

 

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Yeah we do. I think we must have at least 50 of them. Maybe more?

I have been trying to take pics of them in the tree's and of course in flight and that is prooving to be quite a challenge. Very tough to spot them once they land and they do not sit still for long. Kind of fun though.

 

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I have a bunch of photos at the feeders (some of them are ok) but, now I want to start tracking them in the trees and in flight.

I still do not have one yet that I feel like is a real "Keeper". I'll get one though in time.

These birds are very smart or it seems so anyway. When I go out there w/o camera I can stand right next to the feeder and they come right up however, when camera is out there they tend to be a little more shy. I should keep tripod outside with a black box on top of it. Maybe they would get used to it? I do use fill flash most of the still maybe that spooks them a little bit.

I just noticed the last pic is like 1/4 the size of the others. Need to see why that it is so? That is the full frame picture.

That last pic is not all the neat. Except for the 2 in the background. The one near the bottom was actually pulling the other off the feeder. Tried to capture that but missed it.

Probably gonna give it another go this evening.