{"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 return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_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":[27,2340,358,26,1314],"tags":[9367,4021,2651,9358,3940,8974,9368,9359,9357,6043,2652,4062,4069,4104,4156,2341],"class_list":["post-67142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-broad-tailed-hummingbirds","category-tooele-county","category-utah","category-west-desert-utah","tag-5-7-earthquake","tag-bird-photography","tag-broad-tailed-hummingbird","tag-buzzing-wings","tag-canyon","tag-chips","tag-earthquake","tag-fine-tune","tag-gear","tag-hummingbird","tag-hummingbirds-2","tag-male","tag-mountains","tag-perched","tag-resting","tag-selasphorus-platycercus"],"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