I was lucky enough to be nearby with a somewhat steady hand. Ahhh, spring! A birder’s paradise! Time for the zing-zing sound of Hummingbirds zipping by at warp speed! The glitter and shimmer of the Rufous Hummingbird at its whopping 3&3/4 inches in length, it still rules the air with speed and aggression! Both males (pictured above) and females do this They protect their food sources with ferocity!
wildlife photos by gayle richboxman: Bird-Day at the Ranch-The Band-tailed Pigeon
- 08/06/15 03:53 PM
Bird-Day at the Ranch-The Ban Tailed Pigeon It was getting late, heading into dusk and the birds were hunkering down very high up in the trees. I pulled out my camera and from at least a football field's length away and in a thirty foot high tree I captured one bird. I had to sit down in the field and get a steady hand because it was SOOOOOO far away and I used my 1200 zoom on my Canon SX50 for this. I thought it was a mourning dove (so did some of my other bird buddies, Dick Greenberg and Debb Janes ), but after doing … (10 comments)
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