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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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30 Days of Hummingbirds – Day 21

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📸 “Sunday Brunch” – 30 Days of Hummingbirds – Day 21

❓Did you know the lifespan of a hummingbird varies by species, though most species will live 3-5 years on average.

Field Notes:
Camera: Canon EOS 6D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm – 400mm
Focal Length: 400mm
Shutter Speed 1/400
Aperture: f8
ISO: 1250
Time of Day: 9:32a.m.

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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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30 Days of Hummingbirds – Day 14

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📸”Please Don’t Ruffle My Feathers!”

Another photo of one of the hummingbirds in Dad’s yard. Perched on a very dead dogwood tree that needs to be taken down, this little guy and his friends use this tree as part of their runway to and from Dad’s hummingbird feeder. I think we’ll leave the dead tree alone for now!

❓Did you know an average hummingbird’s heart rate is more than 1,200 beats per minute? In comparison, a human’s average heart rate is only 60 to 100 beats per minute at rest.

Field Notes:
Camera: Canon EOS 6D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm – 400mm
Focal Length: 400mm
Shutter Speed 1/4000
Aperture: f5.6
ISO: 1250
Time of Day: 5:00p.m.


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30 Days of Hummingbirds – Day 13

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📸”A View Through Dad’s Window – Dad’s Hummingbirds”

Today I’m sharing with you a different view of these sweet garden fairies. It’s a view from my 93-year-old Dad’s window. This feeder has been hanging outside his window in easy view of his chair for about 3 years. And, like our yard, the Hummingbirds have been extremely active this year keeping him quite entertained throughout the day!

❓Did you know there are more than 325 unique hummingbird species in the world an only 8 species regularly breed in the United States?

Field Notes:
Camera: Canon EOS 6D
Lens: Canon EF 100mm – 400mm
Focal Length: 275mm
Shutter Speed 1/500
Aperture: f5.6
ISO: 1250
Time of Day: 3:09p.m.

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