Hummingbirds are called the Jewels of the Garden or Jewels of the sky. It is easy to see why. As they flit through the colorful flowers the sun catches their brilliant, iridescent feathers giving them a gem like appearance.
These birds are some of my favorite photo subjects. I have turned my backyard into a hummingbird, or pollinator garden as I have written about in the past. I love being able to hang out in my own space, no driving, complete privacy and unlimited time to devote to these tiny subjects.
I don’t know what impacted my flowers this year, but I have very few great photos of the Hummers with beautiful flowers. This is one I like. The flowers seemed to be stressed by the heat and bloomed early and faded fast. I still had a good showing of birds but just not the number of pretty flower and bird opportunities I’ve had in the past.
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Your birds have an Agastache…
(I love these photos, they’re amazing)
Thanks Matt! I like to hear that people enjoy. 🙂
Oh, I did — very much. Thanks for sharing.
Great pictures of the hummers! I’ll have to see if I can get agastache for my garden.
Thank you! I haven’t had the best of luck with local nursery’s for hummingbird plants. I order almost all of my plants from High Country Gardens. All the Agastache varieties are Hummer favorites. Good Luck!
I’m impressed not only at the beauty of these shots, but that the hummingbird’s wings are still. Super-fact shutter speed, I assume?
Thank you so much! Yes fast shutter speed is necessary. Usually I shoot at 1/2000.
Very impressive!