Another beautiful #sunset after another pretty dang good day.
Got many things done, including cancelling the AHS warranty. Only took 75 minutes on hold to get to the first person, and then the clock passed 90 minutes before I got to speak to the “retention specialist.” When they asked why I was cancelling, it was pretty easy.
Also got shop time and glued up another bookcase. I now have six done, out of forty-some. I’m pretty happy with the bookcases, even though it’s a lot of work.
And for the first time in a week, I managed to grab a half-hour nap. Plus we had a tasty dinner. In all, life is pretty good.
Our rufous hummingbird is sitting on top of the hummingbird feeder, protecting it from any other birds again. This seems to be his mid-morning to mid-afternoon perch. Earlier in the morning, he sits on the yucca stalk in the sun. And in the evening, he goes to the juniper a little farther out in the yard.
This little guy is, I think, the same one I got a couple pictures of yesterday. He’s jealously guarding the feeder again this morning, but with the better lighting I got a better picture of him. Pretty brilliant red, I think. And pretty big attitude for such a little guy.
Had to set down the hummingbird camera, and grab the #sunset camera for a quick picture. I love the way the sky lights up here, and our veranda is perfectly positioned for watching sunsets.
I think this is a female Anna’s Hummingbird. She spent about fifteen minutes feeding at our butterfly bush, and she let me walk up to within about five feet. With the big zoom lens, that means pretty dang big pictures.
The strange thing is, I have never seen this hummingbird at our feeder, but my sweetie says she sees her a lot in the front yard, feeding on the flowers there. I wonder if she doesn’t like the aggressive guys that hang out by the feeder.
Merlin (@MerlinBirdID) says she’s either a broad-tailed or a calliope hummingbird. Guess I’m going to have to keep an eye out and see if I can spot the differences.
One of the hummingbirds has taken its territoriality to a new level today. We came home from the grocery store to see it claiming the feeder.
Here’s another photo with the exposure turned up so you can see him better. I think it’s a rufous hummingbird. He looks much more red when he flies out into the sunshine.
Early in the morning, there will often be two or three hummingbirds fighting for access to our feeder. They’re territorial little critters, and aren’t the best at sharing. Guess they should watch more Sesame Street.
Anyway, I’ve been trying to capture more than one of them in a frame at a time for a while now. Neither of these are great exposures, but I at least succeeded in getting multiple birds in-frame.
They make quite a racket when three of them are buzzing around the feeder.
I think this is a calliope hummingbird, sitting on a yucca stalk near the hummingbird feeder outside our dining room window. We get a lot of black-chinned hummingbirds around here, but this guy is different.
Taken with a LUMIX GX1, with a Panasonic 100-300mm zoom lens, cranked all the way out (600 mm-effective).
