Juan, the jack of all trades at our first lodge in Costa Rica seemed to love to put out the sugar water for hummingbirds. This Green-crowned Brilliant was in too big a hurry to wait.
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Sony A1, FE 200-600 + 1.4 TC @ 400 mm, monopod with Wimberley Sidekick mount, f/9, 1/640, iso 8000, manual exposure. Processed in LR & PS CC. Cropped to 7290 x 4734 pixels. Taken at 2:28 PM on April 17th. The rainy season came early this year and afternoons were quite dark, so I had a lot of really high iso images that were still somewhat underexposed.
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Wow, Dennis, that is just too cool! I have put sugar water in a bloom once and got some shots. It is a great way to “encourage them to the blooms” so that you get more natural images.
Such great details in that stop action shot of this beautiful hummer. I put the feeder up and have seen one thus far. Hopefully more soon. I have a flower in bloom that they do like, right below the feeder, so hoping to get them using it when more hummers are competing for the feeder.
@Shirley_Freeman There were swarms of this species at the lodge. I have an image with three of them feeding from one port of a feeder and a fourth coming in to it.
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Cool! And ISO 8000 – cooler!! Can’t wait to see some of your images!
Yes, this is how it works in Costa Rica at the ecolodges. Nice shot!
A really cool shot. I would be very pleased with an image of this beautiful bird alone, but the story you tell with your shot is great.
Looking forward to see more.
