{"id":67142,"date":"2020-03-18T06:24:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-18T12:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=67142"},"modified":"2025-02-11T14:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T20:05:10","slug":"perched-broad-tailed-hummingbird-male","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2020\/03\/18\/perched-broad-tailed-hummingbird-male\/","title":{"rendered":"Perched Broad-tailed Hummingbird Male"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PerchedPerched Broad-tailed Hummingbird male in a mountain canyon \u2013 Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/800, ISO 640, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light<\/span><\/p>\n

Note: At about 7:09 am this morning the house, my desk, everything around me started to shake. We had a 5.7 earthquake and are still feeling aftershocks. I’m okay. I have power.\u00a0<\/span> <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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It won’t be long before I hear the buzzing wings<\/span><\/a>, chips and chitters<\/span><\/a> of Broad-tailed Hummingbirds in the mountains of northern Utah and I am very much looking forward to their return.<\/p>\n

Last year I was able to fine tune my approach to photographing Broad-tailed Hummingbirds by locating what appeared to be their favorite perches near flowering shrubs and plants where they watched over and defended their feeding territories.<\/p>\n

I’m hoping to put the knowledge I gained last year to good use again this year. Since the flowering shrubs and plants only bloom for limited periods I also learned to identify which shrubs and plants bloom during which periods of the growing season and where to locate them in the areas I frequent the most.<\/p>\n

I prefer photographing hummingbirds in the wild where I find them feeding, preening, fighting, defending their territories, resting and hopefully one day, nesting.<\/p>\n

When I lived in Virginia I had hummingbirds that nested in my yard high up in the trees that surrounded my garden but back then I didn’t have the proper gear to photograph for bird photography.<\/p>\n

I photographed this perched male Broad-tailed Hummingbird last year after I heard the sounds of hummingbird wings buzzing near a Wax Currant Bush.<\/p>\n

It was a thrill to be able to take photos of this male, several other males, and a few female hummingbirds as they went about their lives. I was especially happy that the currant bush was in a location where the angle of the sun lit up the colorful throats of the males quite often.<\/p>\n

I took so many images of the Broad-tailed Hummingbirds that morning in May that I still<\/em> haven’t finished going through them. Life gets busy and I am way behind on culling.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/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":"

It won’t be long before I hear the buzzing wings, chips and chitters of Broad-tailed Hummingbirds in the mountains of northern Utah and I am very much looking forward to their 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