Update Note: Since the date this photo was taken, I have made the wise decision to no longer use red dyes in my homemade hummingbird nectar. It has been studied and proven to … like so many other things …. cause cancer and other illnesses in hummingbirds. Please strongly consider doing the same, if you feed these sweeties.
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If you’re familiar with hummingbirds, you know how ‘speedy’ they are. “Zoom, zoom, zoom” was written just for them. They can fly from 0 to 60 in 5 seconds, it seems. (Okay, maybe just a bit of an exaggeration.) Their zig-zaggy, speedy ways make them not the easiest subject to shoot; at least if you are trying to shoot them being still.
After a nice summer rain shower, I took my camera out on the deck for a quicky photo shoot (no tripod), and stood very near to this feeder with my 200mm zoom lens . . . so, although the result isn’t perfect, I am fairly satisfied.
Hummingbirds give us so much pleasure and enjoyment, it’s always so sad to see them leave. Here in our corner of Pennsylvania, they will begin migrating around Labor Day/the first week of September. We continue to leave the feeders out thru the months of September and October, however, as the ones from up north come thru and stop in to fuel up, before continuing on their long journey south. I sure will miss them.
Keep facing the SON !
~deb