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| My wife and I plant two giant planters of zinnies on our deck each year, near the pond. And then without fail in mid July/early August the hummingbirds come to feed. We do not use any sugar water or hummingbird feeders to lure them. Strictly 'au natural' for the little guys.
Gives us such a thrill to see them year after year. This is probably the 10th summer. These pictures are from 7/14/2012 the first 'sighting' of the year. Thanks for looking.
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- Posted by babalu_aye zone 9b - St Pete F (My Page) on Sun, Jul 15, 12 at 11:15
| Wow, those are spectacular photos. John |
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- Posted by waterbug_guy Phoenix AZ (My Page) on Sun, Jul 15, 12 at 11:49
| Very nice. Thanks |
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- Posted by groundbeef (My Page) on Sun, Jul 15, 12 at 16:07
| Thank you for your kind words! |
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- Posted by ChicagoDeli37 none (My Page) on Sun, Jul 15, 12 at 16:57
| They are amazing bird's. Excellent Pictures by the way. Where are you located? Im from Chicago and recently seen on last Month for the first time here. |
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- Posted by ChicagoDeli37 none (My Page) on Sun, Jul 15, 12 at 18:23
| They are amazing bird's. Excellent Pictures by the way. Where are you located? Im from Chicago and recently seen on last Month for the first time here. |
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- Posted by ChicagoDeli37 none (My Page) on Sun, Jul 15, 12 at 18:59
| They are amazing bird's. Excellent Pictures by the way. Where are you located? Im from Chicago and recently seen on last Month for the first time here. |
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- Posted by calamity_j z7bc (My Page) on Sun, Jul 15, 12 at 21:27
| I LOVE Hummers!!!! |
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- Posted by gilroybighouse Z9a/b, Gilroy, CA (My Page) on Sun, Jul 15, 12 at 23:38
| Very nice! I like the second one best. : ) |
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- Posted by pashta_2006 Z4 ADK NY (pashta@aol.com) on Mon, Jul 16, 12 at 16:08
| great shots!! Thanks for sharing |
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- Posted by adriennemb z3/4 (My Page) on Mon, Jul 16, 12 at 22:53
| Beautiful pictures. What kind of camera and equipment did you use? |
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- Posted by groundbeef (My Page) on Tue, Jul 17, 12 at 12:42
| @Adriennemb All taken with the Canon T3i, lens is the 70-200 IS II "L" with the Canon 1.4X Extender attached. F/4.0 or around there. Shutter speed were between 1/1000 and 1/850 depending upon the available light. I was about 8' away from the bird, behind the glass of our back door. |
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- Posted by adriennemb z3/4 (My Page) on Tue, Jul 17, 12 at 17:23
| Aha. Well done you, groundbeef. |
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- Posted by mucky_waters (My Page) on Wed, Jul 18, 12 at 10:23
| Really nice pictures. I have some old hummer pictures I took years ago with my first digital camera, a one megapixel canon A10. |
Here is a link that might be useful: my hummer pictures
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- Posted by groundbeef (My Page) on Wed, Jul 18, 12 at 11:27
| @ Mucky Waters, Thanks for the pictures, but your link has set off my anti-virus software multiple times. Not suggesting you have done anything wrong, but what ever hosting site you are using is tying to inject trojans and virus' when you click on the link. |
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| I had the same problem with anti-virus software being set off! |
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| Me too! I am using Avast antivirus. |
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- Posted by mucky_waters (My Page) on Thu, Jul 19, 12 at 10:26
| Sorry about that. My hosting site was compromised years ago, and they somehow slipped in some re-linking java script into the index files. I thought I had them all fixed, but I must have missed that one. Like I said those were old pictures I had not looked at in a while. Thanks for notifying me, I have just deleted the offending script so it is clean now. Again, sorry. If it's any consolation the offending script simply tries to open up another website without your consent much like html pop ups. |
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