Yeah, we're still not supposed to be putting feeders up. Got tired of seeing all of them coming back to where it was this spring as they were headed north, so we put it back up.Here is a link to the most recent Indiana DNR release I could find, apparently reducing the number of Indiana counties covered by their warnings to remove birdfeeders:
Read that press release I linked -- it says how to sterilize and clean hummingbird feeders with bleach.
No hummers have visited it yet that I've seen, although during the week, I'm not there in the hot part of the day. Still, if they were using it, I think I'd see them. Really need a game cam to verify, but I'm not that industrious. I've had a couple other birds get in it, like mockingbirds and doves, but not the activity I'd hoped for.
Think that's a rebroadcast, as I thought I watched it a couple years ago, but I did watch again, and it is great.
I live in the hill country near New Braunfels, Texas. Humming Birds are a common sight. Based on size, I think there about 3-4 different species here. They vary quite a bit in size. They get here in early summer and stay until late September. Very interesting little birds. Territorial and aggressive to any other humming bird that come into their territory. I'm fairly certain that I have seen: Blacked Chinned, Ruby throated, and Rufous humming birds. However, there are many of them and I can't be certain of all the species.
Yeah, I'm guessing you're seeing both the western (annas, rufous, etc... basically everything except ruby throats) and eastern hummers coming to/from Mexico and then they migrate different directions. Supposedly in the east we only get Ruby throats with a few stragglers of other types. I've only seen rubies, although there was 1 at my feeder that looked very different (almost all black) but I didn't research it to see if it was something else or just a ruby variation.
You live in a beautiful part of the world. I have a buddy that used to live down there and I got to spend some time on the Guad, Llano and Blanco rivers camping, chasing fish and shooting doves. I even managed to find a few arrowheads on some of those trips.
To get focus on the birds, focus on the feeder ahead of time.
I do get it focused on the feeder, and try and avoid shooting towards light. All pictures seem washed out, so I suspect it has to do with being a $35 lens! I'm still happy with pics. I would just like a little more resolution on the birds, and their features. Their feet and beaks are so fine, it's hard to see detail without perfect focus and again, may not be possible with this lens.
Man, I somehow made it to 56 without readlly having my heartbroken... can't say that about 57 now. Great woman, one I had begun to feel could/would be a life partner, and wham. The sad part is, there doesn't feel like there's anything really wrong, just bad timing. We get along awesomely, have never argued in over a year or even gotten mad with one another, but she lives in Raleigh 3 hours away and has HS age kids... and she feel guilty spending her weekends with me, when she's got one that is struggling and at the 11th hour as far as getting stuff righted. Plus, we have such an awesome time on weekends, it makes the weeks longer and sadder and you can get depressed. I think if her kids were older, or parenting was going more smoothly, we might be together long haul. Been very sad for me and hard to get over, but basically only a month in and it's been a drawn out goodbye, but feels like that's where we are. Probably can confirm after tonight.
Oh, absolutely. And they are staying right where they are, sadly for you!
