{"id":15725,"date":"2014-08-29T05:17:01","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T11:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=15725"},"modified":"2025-07-02T07:25:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:25:01","slug":"broad-tailed-hummingbird-a-photographic-lifer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/08\/29\/broad-tailed-hummingbird-a-photographic-lifer\/","title":{"rendered":"Broad-tailed Hummingbird – A Photographic Lifer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PerchedPerched female Broad-tailed Hummingbird – Nikon D810, f6.3, 1\/3200, ISO 640, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light, not baited or set up<\/span><\/p>\n

Photographing hummingbirds in the wild\u00a0can be daunting and fast paced, so fast paced that there are times I don’t often have time to properly ID them in the field.<\/p>\n

Yesterday while photographing hummingbirds I noticed the plumage on the back of one bird looked different.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t until I was able to view my images on my computer screen that I realized that bird was a female Broad-tailed Hummingbird which is a photographic lifer for me.<\/p>\n

I don’t normally count a bird as a “lifer” unless I have photographed it. So I was tickled to find out I had another lifer even though I didn’t ID the bird in the field.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/span><\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Broad-tailed Hummingbird photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photographing hummingbirds in the wild can be daunting and fast paced, so fast paced that there are times I don’t often have time to properly ID them in the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[511,27,2340,1022,26],"tags":[4004,2651,11978,4070,6043,2652,531,4104,2341,2315],"class_list":["post-15725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antelope-island-state-park","category-avian","category-broad-tailed-hummingbirds","category-davis-county-utah","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-broad-tailed-hummingbird","tag-desert-island","tag-female","tag-hummingbird","tag-hummingbirds-2","tag-lifer","tag-perched","tag-selasphorus-platycercus","tag-summer-3"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t