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30 Days of Hummingbirds – Day 23

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📸 “Spread Your Wings and Fly O Mighty One” – 30 Days of Hummingbirds – Day 23

❓While we’re on the topic of migration, did you know Hummingbird migration is triggered by circadian or daily internal clock and the circannual rhythm or yearly clock. Changes in the weather, temperature, time of season, decline in food supply and shorter days with less sunlight are factors that influence the beginning of fall migration.

Field Notes:
Camera: Canon EOS 6D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm – 400mm
Focal Length: 400mm
Shutter Speed 1/640
Aperture: f5.6
ISO: 4000
Time of Day: 9:41a.m.

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30 Days of Hummingbirds – Day 22

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📸 “This Looks Like a Soft Place to Land” – 30 Days of Hummingbirds – Day 22

❓Did you know Hummingbirds are the smallest migrating bird. They don’t migrate in flocks like other species, and they typically travel alone for up to 500 miles at a time.

Field Notes:
Camera: Canon EOS 6D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm – 400mm
Focal Length: 400mm
Shutter Speed 1/2000
Aperture: f7.1
ISO: 1250
Time of Day: 10:27a.m.

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Happy Labor Day!

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✨Happy Labor Day✨

This lion sits perched in the side yard of a home around the corner from us. I pass by it every day when I visit my father.

During each of the holiday seasons they decorate it. I love how they really captured the essence of what today is all about!

Enjoy your holiday!

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30 Days of Hummingbirds – Day 20

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📸 “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”

❓Did you know a hummingbird’s brilliant throat color is not caused by feather pigmentation, but rather by iridescence in the arrangement of the feathers? Light level, moisture, angle of viewing, wear and tear, and other factors all influence just how bright and colorful the throat may appear. Just like a rainbow!

Field Notes:
Camera: Canon EOS 6D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm – 400mm
Focal Length: 400mm
Shutter Speed 1/100
Aperture: f5.6
ISO: 1250
Time of Day: 6:11p.m.

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30 Days of Hummingbirds – Day 19

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📸 “Table for 2!” – 30 Days of Hummingbirds – Day 19

❓Did you know a flock of hummingbirds can be referred to as a bouquet, a glittering, a hover, a shimmer, or a tune?


Field Notes:
Camera: Canon EOS 6D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm – 400mm
Focal Length: 235mm
Shutter Speed 1/100
Aperture: f6.3
ISO: 1250
Time of Day: 7:29p.m.

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30 Days of Hummingbirds – Day 18

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📸 “Some Days I don’t know if I’m coming or Going!” – 30 Days of Hummingbirds – Day 18

❓Did you know when hummingbirds stroke their wings they do so in a forward and backward, pivoting up to 180 degrees at the shoulder to rotate the wing making a figure 8?  This generates “lift” on both forward and backward motions and helps keep them stay aloft and hover.

Field Notes:

Camera: Canon EOS 6D

Lens: Canon EF 100mm – 400mm

Focal Length: 250mm

Shutter Speed 1/100

Aperture: f5

ISO: 1250

Time of Day:  7:36p.m.

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30 Days of Hummingbirds – Day 17

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📸 “Balancing Act”

❓Did you know some hummingbirds have such a heavy beaks that when they perch to rest, they hold their beak straight up in the air for balance?

Field Notes:
Camera: Canon EOS 6D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm – 400mm
Focal Length: 285mm
Shutter Speed 1/250
Aperture: f5.6
ISO: 1250
Time of Day: 6:55p.m.

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30 Days of Hummingbirds – Day 16

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📸” “Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.” – William Shakespeare” – 30 Days of Hummingbirds – Day 16

❓Did you know at night, hummingbirds slow down their metabolism by going into torpor, which is similar to hibernation? This deep sleep that they go into helps keep their energy levels from dropping to dangerous levels.

Field Notes:

Camera: Canon EOS 6D

Lens: Canon EF 100mm – 400mm

Focal Length: 400mm

Shutter Speed 1/200

Aperture: f5.6

ISO: 1250

Time of Day:  6:23p.m.

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30 Days of Hummingbirds – Day 15

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📸”Ah, the Taste of Sweet Nectar” – 30 Days of Hummingbirds – Day 15

❓Did you know Hummingbirds digest natural sucrose—the sugar found in floral nectar—in 20 minutes with 97 percent efficiency for converting the sugar into energy?

Field Notes:

Camera: Canon EOS 6D

Lens: Canon EF 100mm – 400mm

Focal Length: 320mm

Shutter Speed 1/500

Aperture: f5.6

ISO: 1250

Time of Day:  8:47a.m.

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