Ann and I made our usual trip to San Angelo State Park. As hot as it was getting be, her and I still had a good time after feeding the birds at the blind. While at said blind I did manage to get this nice shot of a Black-chinned Hummingbird It was feeding at the blossoms on a Red Flowering Yucca.
We then made a drive around with the windows open and the air-conditioning turned on. Checked to see if the Roseate Spoonbills had stayed, but apparently they are not used to this west Texas heat. We did get a good list of birds, though.
50 White-winged Dove
10 House Finch
1 Black-chinned Hummingbird
12 Northern Mockingbird
2 Black-crested Titmouse
40 Common Grackle
2 Pyrrholoxia
1 Painted Bunting
3 Morning Dove
3 Western Kingbird
3 Killdeer
8 Black-necked Stilts
5 Snowy Egrets
8 Double-crested Cormorants
3 Turkey Vulture
3 Canyon Towhee
1 Greater Roadrunner
1 Golden-fronted Woodpecker
3 Common Nighthawk (all withing 10 yards of each other)
4 Barn Swallow
10 Lark Sparrow
3 Western Sandpiper
Several un-identified ducks.
Not bad count considering the heat. Today is supposed to be the 23rd consecutive day of 100+ degrees. So we’re setting a new record as the days go by. The old record was 18 straight days.
So folks, I am going to cool off this afternoon in front of the TV and watch the Texas Rangers take on the Baltimore Orioles. Life doesn’t get any better than this. 🙂
Happy Birding everybody!!
Love that hummingbird shot! I’ve been trying all summer to get a picture of a hummingbird that has been visiting my backyard flowers and not succeeded.
Lovely shot!!!! beautiful capture of the subject and a nice bokeh from the DoF
Thanks, Holly,
You are very right about having to be there at the right time. They move very, very quickly. I got lucky on this one, and the light was perfect.
Bob
Very nice!! I’m always impressed with photos of hummingbirds – they move SO quickly…. you have to be RIGHT there, ready to go!
P.S. to my other reply. This photo is an example of what I mentioned to you before. I used a very large aperture, f5.6, to through the entire background into a very nice greanish blur.
Bob