{"id":6017,"date":"2012-08-30T06:33:20","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T12:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=6017"},"modified":"2025-05-23T10:41:42","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T15:41:42","slug":"female-black-chinned-hummingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2012\/08\/30\/female-black-chinned-hummingbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Black-chinned Hummingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-146342 size-full\" title=\"Female Black-chinned Hummingbird, Salt Lake County, Utah\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/black-chinned-hummingbird-female-mia-mcpherson-9714.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/black-chinned-hummingbird-female-mia-mcpherson-9714.jpg\" alt=\"Female Black-chinned Hummingbird, Salt Lake County, Utah\" width=\"650\" height=\"737\" data-id=\"10152\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27650%27%20height%3D%27737%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20650%20737%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27650%27%20height%3D%27737%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/black-chinned-hummingbird-female-mia-mcpherson-9714-200x227.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/black-chinned-hummingbird-female-mia-mcpherson-9714-400x454.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/black-chinned-hummingbird-female-mia-mcpherson-9714-600x680.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/black-chinned-hummingbird-female-mia-mcpherson-9714.jpg 650w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Female Black-chinned Hummingbird &#8211; Nikon D200, tripod mounted, f6.3, 1\/160, ISO 400, +0.7 EV, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, natural light, near a backyard feeder<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I saw a female Black-chinned Hummingbird (<em>Archilochus alexandri<\/em>) checking out the feeder near my front window. I realized that I haven&#8217;t posted any hummingbirds to my blog yet so I decided to post this one that I photographed a few years ago in the backyard.<\/p>\n<p>The hummingbirds here will soon be leaving. I should have spent more time photographing them. I should put that on my list to do next season.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t use flash on birds because of my own personal ethics regarding bird photography so I used a tripod for stability knowing I wasn&#8217;t going to get a fast shutter speed with the light that was available.<\/p>\n<p>Life <em>is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n<p>Mia<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/black-chinned-hummingbird-images\/\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Black-chinned Hummingbird photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I saw a female Black-chinned Hummingbird (Archilochus alexandri) checking out the feeder near my front 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