They're messing up my rose bush!

MystrE · Sep 17, 2014

For a bird that supposed to be so lightweight, hummingbirds are bending over the new buds on my rose bush. How I am going to give a straight stem rose to my wife when I get in trouble?

sscarmack · Sep 17, 2014

Nice focus!

MystrE · Sep 17, 2014

What are those strange bugs with their behinds attached together and I wonder if they're edible? My answer to him was: they're love bugs and yes, I wish you would eat as many as you can. The love bug was just out of the field of view but trust me, they're all over the place.

sm4him · Sep 17, 2014

Gorgeous images, and terrific lighting to really show off the young male's emerging throat colors!

As for the bent rose, I believe that second hummer is actually looking at you and saying, "just stay out of trouble, mister and then you won't need this rose!"

BillM · Sep 17, 2014

Now i know where my hummingbirds went

But glad to see you are putting them to such good use :icon_thumleft:

tirediron · Sep 17, 2014

Well captured!!!!

JacaRanda · Sep 17, 2014

Sweetness!

baturn · Sep 17, 2014

Beautiful!

MystrE · Sep 17, 2014

Thank you, I appreciate the compliments! I've had a lot of fun this summer trying to learn how to photograph these birds. Soon, they will migrate from the area but I've been encouraged by a local hummingbird expert to leave a feeder up though the fall and winter for any hummers that decide to stay behind. People in these parts have been seeing more and more winter hummers the last few years.

Hunter58 · Sep 18, 2014

Nice captures. It's nice to see them on flowers rather than a feeder.

MystrE · Sep 19, 2014

Let me hop over to the very end of this bud so I can bend it over all the way...

MystrE · Sep 19, 2014

Now he's bending the same bud over the other way. It will be interesting to see where he decides to guard "his" feeder when "his" bud breaks off the bush!

MystrE · Sep 19, 2014

He got bowed up while taking this photo. Maybe he's mad at me for disturbing him while he guards "his" feeder.

MystrE · Sep 19, 2014

I'm struggling a bit with exposure on photos like these. On the last 2 photos, the sun was ducking behind clouds and while out was shining directly upon one side of the birds. I'm not quite sure how to adjust for that with my Nikon D5100. I use IPhoto and sometimes Photoshop Elements 12 (I'm a newbie with Photoshop).