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An interloper in my backyard
"Charley" --- my resident male Anna's Hummingbird and the unofficial King of
My Backyard went absolutely bonkers when he saw this guy drinking from "his" feeder. -- Pat Durkin email: t o b a c c o h a t e r 1 @ y a h o o . c o m |
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An interloper in my backyard
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"Paddy's Pig" wrote: "Charley" --- my resident male Anna's Hummingbird and the unofficial King of My Backyard went absolutely bonkers when he saw this guy drinking from "his" feeder. Beautiful. I was blessed one year when one of these stopped by my house in central Texas for a drink on his way east (or was it west?). -- 8^)~ Sue (remove the x to email) ~~~~ http://www.umbrellahatsociety.com/ http://www.suzanne-eckhardt.com/ |
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An interloper in my backyard
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Suzie-Q wrote: In article , "Paddy's Pig" wrote: "Charley" --- my resident male Anna's Hummingbird and the unofficial King of My Backyard went absolutely bonkers when he saw this guy drinking from "his" feeder. Beautiful. I was blessed one year when one of these stopped by my house in central Texas for a drink on his way east (or was it west?). As usual your pictures are outstanding! I am still curious on how you get those magnificent images. -Donn |
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An interloper in my backyard
"Donn Thorson" wrote in message
... As usual your pictures are outstanding! I am still curious on how you get those magnificent images. Thanks Donn. Basically I set up a "camera trap". I can and do shoot them with a hand held camera sometimes but not all the time. Most of what you see involves placing my camera on a stationary tripod which I've positioned in front of some bait (a feeder). I've been discussing my technique with Wendy in this newsgroup and I thought perhaps you'd seen that. Here's what I told her the other day: "I set up my tripod around a foot or so from where I want the bird to be. Then I zone focus to a point in the air that is directly in front of the feeder and then lock out the autofocus feature so that it won't shift from that setting." In the next paragraph I told her: "I got rid of my feeder that had a ring around it for the birds to perch on. As long as they can sit on the other side away from you or your camera they'll do it everytime. So I took control of that situation by providing a feeder that only has one spout --- one place for the bird to get its reward. That assures that it will always "pose" where I want it to pose." Then I stand or sit a few feet away and wait. It's like fishing. You bait your hook and throw the line out and you sit back and wait for a bite. Or in my case I've "baited" my camera trap with the feeder --- now all I've got to do is sit back and wait for the bird to bite (by flying into my pre-focused zone) and when it gets there it's just a question of me snapping its portrait using a little infra-red remote control device I've got to control my camera. -- Pat Durkin email: t o b a c c o h a t e r 1 @ y a h o o . c o m |
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An interloper in my backyard
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"Paddy's Pig" wrote: "Donn Thorson" wrote in message ... As usual your pictures are outstanding! I am still curious on how you get those magnificent images. Thanks Donn. Basically I set up a "camera trap". I can and do shoot them with a hand held camera sometimes but not all the time. Most of what you see involves placing my camera on a stationary tripod which I've positioned in front of some bait (a feeder). I've been discussing my technique with Wendy in this newsgroup and I thought perhaps you'd seen that. Here's what I told her the other day: "I set up my tripod around a foot or so from where I want the bird to be. Then I zone focus to a point in the air that is directly in front of the feeder and then lock out the autofocus feature so that it won't shift from that setting." In the next paragraph I told her: "I got rid of my feeder that had a ring around it for the birds to perch on. As long as they can sit on the other side away from you or your camera they'll do it everytime. So I took control of that situation by providing a feeder that only has one spout --- one place for the bird to get its reward. That assures that it will always "pose" where I want it to pose." Then I stand or sit a few feet away and wait. It's like fishing. You bait your hook and throw the line out and you sit back and wait for a bite. Or in my case I've "baited" my camera trap with the feeder --- now all I've got to do is sit back and wait for the bird to bite (by flying into my pre-focused zone) and when it gets there it's just a question of me snapping its portrait using a little infra-red remote control device I've got to control my camera. Your method works...excellent! I figured that you had a tripod setup next to a feeder with a remote. The little birds are so swift that it is hard to capture them with just a hand held camera. My hummingbirds are far and few between in the open farm country which I live. So I have little chance of taking pictures of them...especially as good as yours! Keep those pictures coming! -Donn |
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