Female Ruby Throated Hummingbird II

Here is another image of a female ruby throat in my backyard. I took this one this morning. I do not think I like this one as much as the one I posted before, but was glad to get one of her enjoying these flowers. I am going to try some new setups this weekend and will post each time I get a new image worth sharing. Until then, hope you like this one!

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1/1000s. | f/8 | ISO 400 | Fill Flash

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Female Ruby Throated Hummingbird

Sorry for the recent lack of images here! It has continued to be extremely hot here with the short rain showers this morning not helping matters, now it is hot and very humid! I did brave the humidity and took advantage of overcast skies this afternoon to get this shot of a female ruby throat. I have a couple of females that visit my hummingbird garden every day and I saw a male for the first time yesterday. I like the background in this shot and the wings up pose. Let me know what you think!

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1/640s. | f/6.3 | ISO 1000 | Fill Flash
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Duckling

Things are very slow photography wise for me right now. The temps are in the 100s right now and there is not very much bird activity going on. I am hoping to go out to the Village Creek beds in Arlington next week as a lot of reports from the local Audubon website are positive for flocks of shorebirds, buntings and dickcissel, a lot of species that I was hoping to have images of by summers end. So we will see! For now, here is a image from last year that I dug out of my files to rework in Photoshop cs5.

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1/500s. | f/8 | ISO 400
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Squirrel

Here is a image of a common Squirrel that I took while at the Nature Center a couple of weeks ago. These squirrels may look cute, but put them in front of some bird feeders and they will clean them out really fast! I have a couple in my yard that I have to battle to keep off my feeders, very tough fight to fight. I have one hummingbird diligently visiting my yard every day now, so tomorrow morning I will try to get some shots. Stay tuned!

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1/500s. | f/5.6 | ISO 640
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Red-Wing Blackbird

Well, I did not make it back out to the Nature Center yesterday as I had hoped to get some more painted bunting images, hopefully I can get out very soon though. Here is a shot that I got at the reservoir last week. It was a unsuccessful trip, not much hanging around there right now. I did get this shot of a red wing blackbird who was being very noisy. He let me get very close and I was able to get these neat early evening clouds as a background. Hope you like it.

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1/1600s. | f/8 | ISO 400 | Fill Flash

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Painted Bunting

Here is a shot from yesterday afternoon, taken at the Fort Worth Nature Center of a Painted Bunting. This is my first decent image of a painted so I am very pleased! There were about 4 painted buntings visiting the birdwatching courtyard, 2 males and 2 females, and they came very close. I am anticipating many more images of them this summer. Unfortunately, there is only one decent perch in range of my lens that they land on ( the one pictured ), and I wish there were a few more. Anyway, hope you like this one.

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1/100s. | f/5.6 | ISO 640 | Fill Flash

Calling Killdeer

Here is a image that I took a month or two ago. Origially I didn't bother to process it because there was a shadow across the side of the face, but I came across it again today and did some processing in CS5 ( new toy, I mean tool! ) and got it to look a bit better, I think. How does it look to you? I received my copies of Natures Best Photography magazine, which features my image from the Birds in Focus competition and all of the other winners, pretty neat!

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1/1000s. | f/6.3 | ISO 200
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