The Trilogy /part #1
by Verdon
This is the picture from last year of the nesting hummingbird ....... I was looking for some action shot of kingfisher , when I was standing on the bridge over the river I spotted the nervously flying hummingbird (male) and after couple of minutes I found the female sitting on the nest. The nest was built over the river on the branch wide as a pretty skinny forearm, diameter of the nest could be around 2 inches, the nest was sitting on very wildly grown tree hanging over the river, I could photograph them just thru the narrow gap (on not windy day..) between the leaves, the closest distance between my lens and the nest was probably 12-15 feet and 15 feet over the water, which means no good use for any multiple flashes at all !
Broad-tailed Hummingbird
MarkIII, 1/125 sec, F/5.4, ISO800, 400 mm, 2/3 EV, tripot Giottos+ballhead
Thank you for your comments
Comments
7 commentsKeith.
I have never even seen a wild hummingbird and certainly not a hummingbird nest. This is really nice and a very good photo as well.
Lennart
Congrats!