Humming bird, Frustration
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Humming bird, Frustration

Napper

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Still Humming here at the beach! I am getting a little flustrated! Every day when the lighting is correct I camp out on the driveway at certain times of the day with camera waiting for a Humming bird to show itself.  Whenever I am there without the camera guess who shows up.  Today with perfect lighting, camera on my lap while sitting on a comfortable chair a Humming bird shows up and just then a dump truck drives by, of course the bird disappears. >:( Yesterday a Humming bird is at the Rose of Sharon for a good 2 minutes I am on the deck watching without my camera.  Making matters worse when its is done feeding it makes a beeline directly at me and hovers  5 feet away then zips away.
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My wife has this ability to combine words to create new ones, hence "flustrated". Most of these new words are directed at me of course. :)
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You know your getting old when.....wait, what?


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Still Humming here at the beach! I am getting a little flustrated! Every day when the lighting is correct I camp out on the driveway at certain times of the day with camera waiting for a Humming bird to show itself.  Whenever I am there without the camera guess who shows up.  Today with perfect lighting, camera on my lap while sitting on a comfortable chair a Humming bird shows up and just then a dump truck drives by, of course the bird disappears. >:( Yesterday a Humming bird is at the Rose of Sharon for a good 2 minutes I am on the deck watching without my camera.  Making matters worse when its is done feeding it makes a beeline directly at me and hovers  5 feet away then zips away.
Napper :)
My wife has this ability to combine words to create new ones, hence "flustrated". Most of these new words are directed at me of course. :)
Don't you know that's exactly why he did it? They recognize you don't have your camera.


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By all means, have your camera by your side, even if the hummer sees it. Better yet, do what I did today. I kept the camera by my side, along with binoculars, but I covered it with a cloth. A hummer flew over the roof of the car and landed at the top of a bush adjacent to the car. I stood up because the bush is tall and shot over the car. Direct sunlight caused extreme contrast. Once again, I left my sunglasses on because I didn't want the hummer to recognize me.



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Any chance that you could post a picture so we can see you in your blind? ..................................... get it?  I don't suppose your camera can capture the infrared  ... you know ... a heat signature. I understand that a camera's sensor can be re-calibrated in the shop to restore its sensitivity to the red end of the spectrum, thereby giving it greater utility for deep sky astrophotography. Nebula are often rich in hydrogen, a rather important ingredient in star formation, and hydrogen appears red in a deep sky time-exposure. I wonder how that is done. Without the adjustment to the sensor it is rather blind to red-glowing hydrogen. What does any of this have to do with hummingbirds and their ability to avoid the camera? Well, nothing really. I live on a tangent and even with that vital trajectory I often end up completely off course.  Buzzzz.