Cross posted in the 300 plus lens club

One of our hummingbirds turned up yesterday, and was flying in front of the kitchen window. "Hey dude, where's my feeder?" I went over to the store a bought a new feeder, last years had become pretty ratty, and put it out, by now, two males and female are present.

K-3 and DA*200 and F1.7x AF adapter.
ƒ4.5, 1/2000s (fixed) , ISO was the variable using TAV
Plus audio bomber's tracking settings which I've programmed into the U1 function. It slows down the burst, but every shot was in focus, hard to argue with that. ISO was either 1600 ISO or 2500 ISO.







Later the same day... out in the sun to get the ISO down (it's as high as 5000 ISO on those first images.)

The female, she's harder to capture.. she doesn't come around as often and tends to land in places where she's partially blocked. I used the stacked TCs for this, but problems with DoF had me taking the 1.4 off for the next set. I also set the shutter speed down to 1/1600, and didn't like it. I put it back to 1/2000 for the next set.





Male- Back down to 340mm from 476, back up to F4.5 from f6.3 and back up to 1/2000s and ISO 500-640 meant didn't have to spend time cleaning up the noise.

[robgski]

Nice shots. We've had a such a wet cool spring that I think the few I've seen were migrating, I hope they'll be massing at my feeders soon.

[normhead]

Nice shots. We've had a such a wet cool spring that I think the few I've seen were migrating, I hope they'll be massing at my feeders soon.

Given the way one of these came to our window and buzzed us, when there was no food, I'm pretty sure these are our summer residents returned from the south. That's a pretty amazing though just on it's own. A little bird this size making it down to a warm climate and back. We had 3 at the end of last summer, and we have three now. Resilient little migrators they are.

[eaglem]

Excellent colour and detail..............a very good series.

[normhead]

Excellent colour and detail..............a very good series.

Thanks eaglem

[normhead]

A few more from yesterday.





And to complete the series.

[originalwinger]

thanks norm you have fired me up, hummer shots are again on my to do list

[Kerrowdown]

Incredible shots, colours, sharp, all just great.

We have nothing like this here at all, I'll just have to settle with some boring old heilan coos.

[timedriver]

Fantastic

[normhead]

thanks norm you have fired me up, hummer shots are again on my to do list

We'll be watching to see how you do.

Incredible shots, colours, sharp, all just great.

We have nothing like this here at all, I'll just have to settle with some boring old heilan coos.

Just another reason for joining most of the smartest Scots, who already moved to Canada.

Fantastic

Thanks for commenting.

[Sailor]

Wow, these are spectacular, Norm. Connie spotted a hummingbird a few days ago and thus put up a couple of feeders - we've not seen one since, perhaps because they're getting weary of flooding rains!

Jer

[normhead]

Wow, these are spectacular, Norm. Connie spotted a hummingbird a few days ago and thus put up a couple of feeders - we've not seen one since, perhaps because they're getting weary of flooding rains!

Jer

Thanks for commenting Sailor, Hope you get a few hummers of your own soon,

[cg57]

Fabulous series. Wonderfully captured and presented.

[normhead]

Fabulous series. Wonderfully captured and presented.

Thanks for commenting.

[LaurenOE]

I love Hummingbirds!
Nice shots!