More on hummingbirds…

Published on 2015-04-11 by Mark VandeWettering

I imagine that some of you are getting bored with this, so I won’t post another 20 minutes of hummingbird video. But I will post a couple of things. For instance, I cut a frame from the videos at the beginning of the day and at the end of the day. You can clearly see the level of nectar in the feeder drop. They don’t seem to eat a lot.

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John wondered (quite rightly) whether I could get the camera positioned in a better position so I could get something other than the near silhouette images that I had yesterday. I’d have to move the camera outdoors, which means I’d have to make a better enclosure. But tonight the setting sun was fairly low and sidelit the birds in a couple of my late captures. Here is a late still frame…

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And some of the video shot late in the day…