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It's one of the 6 of oneself dozen of.theother situations. You increase you shutter speed, buy using faster aperture, and you get out of focus wings because of Depth of Field. Reduce you shutter speed and you get blurry wings because of motion blur. But the absolute lowest for hummers is probably about 1/1000s.Did you put the hummingbird feeder back out?
Increase your shutter speed, say 400 minimum for a still subject and that'll help with camera shake/motion blur at telephoto distances. Depending on ones own personal hand shake.
The hummingbird, bump that up to 2000, 2500.
Ps. The Green Jay rocks!
1/1250 DOF increased by shootigfrom a longer distance.

Much closer
1/4000 wing blur from lack of DoF. Already at ISO 1250 to 1/4000s

I found one image on flickr with good inflight wing detail.
ƒ 6.3 240mm 1/3200s 500 ISO. This year I'll give it try.
Loooking at the other images in the eries, it looks like he got lucky., the wings were back close to the body and incuded in teh ƒ6.3 DoF. Other images where the wings are spead wider they aren’t clear. SO, fast shutter speed hoping ot catch the wins in a burst might be the key.
I might even consider higher ISO and ƒ8 or ƒ11.
A project for the summer.
Hummers have ben spotted in migrating numbers, 100 mile sout of htere. Our feeders are out waiting for thier arrival.
I’ll also consider shooting from a little further away to increase DoF. I’ve always tried to get as close as posible.
I made a new plan Stan.
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