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Subject: [Leica] Anna Hummingbird feeding her young
From: robertbaron1 at gmail.com (Robert Baron)
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 18:15:39 -0500
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Really really good.

But how do you tell the difference between Baby 1 and Baby 2?

:-)

--Bob


On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 4:00 PM, H&E Cummer <cummer at netvigator.com> wrote:

> Hi Luggers,
> I'm taking a break from the blood and gore of Tanzania. My neighbour
> stopped me in the grocery store the other day to tell me that he had found
> a hummingbird nest in his garden.
> Would I like to come by and photograph it? Of course, I said, and I have
> been over to his place three times to try and capture the action. I stand
> on top of his compost pile and
> this brings me almost to eye level with the nest. I use the D800E with a
> 1.7X extender on the old 300 f4.0 AFS. At first I used a monopod, and the
> last time, this morning, I used
> a tripod to concentrate on the action around the nest. Here are a series
> of photos outlining the feeding cycle.
>
> <
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Hummers2014/FeedPrep.jpg.html
> >
>
> Please shift to the right to see the rest of the series. Mama fed the two
> babies three times in the hour I was there - one babe is more aggressive
> than the other - and he (she?)
> gets more food than the quiet number two. Papa has already gone North, it
> seems, to go fishing and play in the Alaskan casinos - so Mama has a lot of
> work to do.
>
> The nest is located in a dark spot - most shots are at ISO 6400 f11 or f13
> and shutter speeds in the 1/400 - 1/500 range. All the photos are cropped
> except the last one of Mama
> flying away for another food foraging trip.
>
> Please look large. C&C always welcome.
>
> Howard (back in Hummingbird land)
>
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