I found a flower garden with at least six hummingbirds buzzing around it and I managed to photograph a few of them! So behold, an all-hummingbirds blog post. Enjoy!

An Anna’s hummingbird with shimmering pink feathers on their head and throat is perched on a branch.

An Anna’s hummingbird in flight with their wings out behind them. Their wings are blurred from motion.

An Anna’s hummingbird in flight with their wings stretched out in front of them. Their wings are blurred from motion.

For curious photography folks, I took all of these on my Fujifilm X-t2 with a 100-400mm lens and 1/2000 shutter speed. Other settings varied. I kind of want to try an even faster shutter speed to really freeze the motion of the wings, but they’re already a bit grainy from high ISO. Maybe next time it’ll be a brighter day, but then you get the harsher shadows, so I guess I’ll just keep experimenting.

An Anna’s hummingbird hovering in front of a bright purple flower with green leaves and red flowers in the background.

An Anna’s hummingbird viewed from the back as they hover and feed from purple flowers. Their back is a shimmering iridescent green.

Profile of an Anna’s hummingbird sitting on a branch. They’re white, green, black, and have the tiniest fleck of pink on their head.

I love that I often hear hummingbirds before I see them and it’s so fun looking around to the tips of branches and up into the sky to see if I can catch a glimpse of them, tiny and quick as they are. If you’re not used to listening to hummingbirds, I highly recommend it. Once you realize what that sound is, it adds little moments of magic to ordinary days.

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Where all the hummingbirds hang out

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