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[JaniceL]

Been waiting all day to get the last shot. Probably the best I'll get today. I finally determined that there is a committed pair. One would watch while the other fed. the interloper was chased off.

First there was one.


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Party's over

 

[Bill Anderson]

You are doing very well to get two hummers in one photo. Three is outstanding.

 

[JaniceL]

You are doing very well to get two hummers in one photo. Three is outstanding.

I called it quits and did something productive with the rest of the day. I had a hard time catching them with my telephoto and low light. I then decided to try my 100mm 2.8 macro since they were very friendly to me. It was a good choice.

 

[Bill Anderson]

I called it quits and did something productive with the rest of the day. I had a hard time catching them with my telephoto and low light. I then decided to try my 100mm 2.8 macro since they were very friendly to me. It was a good choice.

A while back I used my 24-105L zoom mounted on a tripod with a remote cable shutter release. This enabled the camera to be close to the feeder while I stepped back so as not scare the hummers.

 

[Bill Anderson]

Dexter spent Friday (12/6) flying back and forth between the feeders and his favorite perches. I saw him chase two other hummers out of my backyard.

 

[Christine]

I put up a little heat light for the hummers... one has pretty well hung around all day.... I dont know if this is a Rufus or an Anna...

 

[JaniceL]

Lovely Bill.

 

[JaniceL]

Christine, I'm fairly confident that is an Anna's Hummingbird. Lovely shot.

 

[Bill Anderson]

Definitely an Anna's. They stay here year around whereas the Rufus should all have left the PNW by October.

 

[photographmemories]

I haven't seen the squirrel in awhile but, here's a flicker! This guy is a regular here.

 

[JaniceL]

Cool flicker. Interesting color.

 

[fiznatty]

We have a tiny yard, and have only been using feeders the last couple years. Still, it's been fun seeing who shows up. Generally we don't get a lot of variety (mainly juncos, chickadees and sparrows), but we've had a few random sightings: waxwing, Townsend's warbler, varied thrush, hummingbirds, woodpeckers and sapsuckers are all pretty rare sights for our yard.

Here are a couple visitors from recent years:







Max

 

[Terry O]

Nice variety, Max. We have a similar range of visitors. Here's a couple of examples taken at or within a few feet of our feeders. These were taken on Oct. 30 of this year.

Black-capped chickadee



Golden-crowned sparrow taking a bath



Northern (red-shafted) flicker

 

[Bill Anderson]

Great shots, Terry. Taken with the 500L lens?

 

[Terry O]

Yes, Bill, and the 7D. Thanks!

 

[Bill Anderson]

Yes, Bill, and the 7D. Thanks!

Given our notoriously poor light, it really helps when you can get up close and personal to the bird with a long lens rather than rely on cropping the photo.

 

[Bill Anderson]

I have been tossing peanuts directly to the ground from the second story back deck in the hopes that the varied thrush which has been hanging out in my back yard will get a few. Most are scooped up by the furry-tailed tree rats and the evil minions of the Dark Lord.

 

[photographmemories]

Cool flicker. Interesting color.

Thanks! I'm thinking female red-shafted flicker. There's several variations of Flickers out there. I was just reading about recent yellow-shafted flicker reports in the Willamette Valley here in Oregon. I would love to get a shot of that.

Here's another photo of the flicker that I posted. A lot of my shots in this particular thread were taken through a window, like this one here...

 

[photographmemories]

This was a visitor a couple of days ago. Purple Finch, no?

 

[Bill Anderson]

I think it is a male house finch. I have yet to spot a purple finch; but from photos I have seen, the bird in your photo has too much brown on its head and body to be a purple finch. My local bird book says the house finch is displacing the purple finch in the Puget Sound region.

Ironically, I have not seen many house finches this year. They are usually the most prevalent bird at my feeders. Terry has photographed purple finches at his feeder. Maybe if we ask him real nice, he will post up some of those photos.