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I took these while at my Dad's last week. Wondered if anyone would enjoy them. The lighting isn't the greatest, I took them in the evening. When the sun hits them just right.... they catch fire !! Amazing little bird !!
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Roan Art
04-24-2006, 7:38 PM
Beautiful!
My daughter and I loved them. Thanks for sharing!
Roan
TheMightyQueenPixie
04-24-2006, 7:59 PM
I love it when they have "hummer wars"... So funny to hear them given each other 'heck"... My mom is a natural red head and the hummers literally dive bomb her...it is hilarious to see them fighting around her head :)
nice pics, the one on the top left is the best! the light catches it just right to show it at sunset (or sunrise...) besides, the picture that everyone expects to see isn't necessarily the most interesting!
Humming birds are one of the first things i ever photographed! (and i had the same feeder as your dad at the time too!) so seeing these pictures is really cool for me (even though the memories are about 7or 8 years old, that's a long time for me!)
THANKS FOR SHARING!!!
(PS pixie, that avitar is disturbing in a not so funny kind of way...)
TheMightyQueenPixie
04-24-2006, 9:09 PM
Its just a different kind of love Lobo ;) Come to think of it, im kind of disturbed in a not-so-funny kind of way :P
EMG: Those pics are National Geographic worthy... They are really terrific!
LOL Lobo, on your comment concerning MQ's avatar..... :laugh:
I'm so glad you all are enjoying them ! I truley wish I had been out taking those pics earlier in the day so that their colors showed more....but, either way, they are a LOVELY bird !!
OH ! MQ.......hilarious about you're mom's red hair !!!! Oh to be so encumbered as to have these little beauties fighting over your locks !!!
And I had a friend who constantly worried at night about BATS getting stuck in her hair !!! She had an incredible FRO ! LOL !!
msouth468
04-24-2006, 10:01 PM
I kinda like them...
That is, whenever I see them they seem to be on a collision course with my face. I don't know what it is but whenever I see one he is heading right for me. I usually duck to get out of the way.
Lobo.
04-24-2006, 10:08 PM
lol! maybe they like seeing you get out of THEIR way, you being about 100 times larger than them!
brave little buggers, those hummingbirds!
msouth468
04-24-2006, 10:11 PM
lol! maybe they like seeing you get out of THEIR way, you being about 100 times larger than them!
brave little buggers, those hummingbirds!
I'd be lying if I said I didn't scream like a girl when it happens.
But...
I wasn't scared.
Leopardess
04-24-2006, 11:13 PM
I like the one in flight. Thank you for sharing!
I miss the hummingbirds. I can't wait to get my petunias and begonias growing out on the porch this summer....that's when they stop by to gorge themselves.
rosita
04-24-2006, 11:14 PM
Wow, Emg, those photos really are grrrrrr-eat! Thank you for sharing them--hummingbirds are fascinating little critters. What energy!! And your poor mom--guess it could always be worse!!! LOL
125gJoe
04-25-2006, 2:59 AM
Those are nice pics!
I don't think there are many hummingbirds down here in Florida...
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Holly9937
04-25-2006, 12:22 PM
I LOVE hummingbirds!! Whenever we set up our feeder for the summer, I'll stand close to the feeder for a while and they still come right up, its so neat to hear the little wings fluttering!! and I'm a redhead too, wonder if thats why they don't mind my company :rolleyes:
I don't think there are many hummingbirds down here in Florida...
Lol Joe, that's because they're all up here in the north !! ...at least in the summertime. Not sure where they go in winter...maybe Mexico/S America :huh: It's amazing just how far those little bitties can travel !