[Leica] Hummingbirds

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Douglas B,
Thanks for looking.

The first hummingbird I ever saw was just 2 years ago, in fellow Lugger
Howard Cummer's place in Pender Island, in Vancouver

Cheers
Jayanand

On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 11:43 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:

> That was a very productive outing, Jayanand, with some great shots. I've
> never seen one of those, but have seen the hummingbird moth.
>
> Douglas
>
>
> On 16/12/2018 03:21, Jayanand Govindaraj via LUG wrote:
> > We spent a few days in Quito, a most charming town, on the way to the
> > Galapagos. On one of the days we hired a car and driver and set off for
> the
> > Mindo Cloud Forest in search of birds, especially hummingbirds. Ecuador
> is
> > Hummingbird Central, as 134 of the 320 odd varieties are found in the
> > Andean Cloud Forest there.  We went to a couple of places, outfitted with
> > plants, water, flowers and feeders to attract the birds, as is the norm
> in
> > Central and South America. Even with all this, it was quite difficult to
> > photograph the hummingbirds off the feeders, in a natural state, as they
> > zip around at what seems to be the speed of sound. Anyway, like the
> parable
> > of the monkeys at the typewriters, if one keep clicking away, some are
> > bound to be fine. These were all taken in natural light, hand held,
> without
> > the help of a high speed sync flash setup, which is normal for
> > photographing  hummingbirds.
> >
> > Here is a page of hummingbirds. They are identified to the best of my
> > ability, if they need to be corrected, please let me know, and I will do
> so!
> >
> > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/Galapagos/hummers/
> >
> > Please see LARGE
> >
> > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
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