Have you seen a hummingbird stand in the air,
as if he hadn’t a care,
supported by nothing but air?
Have you seen a sight more fair,
than a hummingbird floating in air?
But even the best, must finally….
rest.
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Beautiful photos.
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Merci beau coup!
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Fantastic photos. You are good!
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You are nice!!
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Love these pics!
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We’ve got scores of hummingbirds and I love them so thank you!!!
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All of your pics are gorgeous, such dramatic color and fine detail. Dare I ask what make and model of camera?
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I love the humming birds.
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I do too!! I’m looking at them now!!
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OMG! How did you ever get this close to a hummingbird to take these crystal clear shots??? Wonderful!
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They are not afraid of me. I am quite certain they will land on me soon. They come within inches of me. I love them completely!!
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I wanted to inform you that I nominated you for the Shine On Award – and I hope that you will continue to shine on.
You will find more information on the award here:
http://rabirius.wordpress.com/awards/
Congratulations,
rabirius.
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Awww! I am so lucky to meet people like you in blogdom! Thank you~
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Thank you for these wonderful photos. Swoon.
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They are just the most delightful little creatures! I am so glad you like them~
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I’ve never had the opportunity to photograph a hummingbird because they’re so quick to take flight and seem to never stand still.
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They do hover. They are the only bird that can fly backwards! You are right they are just incredibly fast.
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I didn’t know they could fly backwards. So, I must be kin to the hummingbird because when I was a kid I could ride my bicycle backwards, too.
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How ON EARTH did you do this???? This is hilarious! I wanna take pics if you want to see if you can still do it!! lol!
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Hi Cindy ,these are breathtaking pictures.Cheers.jalal
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So kind Jalal. Thank you~
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Amazing creatures. I don’t know how you captured them like this but these pictures are beautiful!
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It makes me happy that you like them. Thank you~
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Actually, I have never seen a hummingbird perched except in your photos, but the floating in mid-air thing is fascinating to watch! Cute little poem to go with your beautiful photos, Cindy!
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Cheers to you my friend~
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Beautiful, beautiful close-ups.
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Mil grazi. The are remarkable little creatures with tons of personality!
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Once again, great shots – I particularly like the shots where the wings are just a shimmer, a suggestion – absolutely beautiful.
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They are just stunning creatures. It shocks me to look at them without telephoto some times because it reminds me how small they are. Great things come in small packages~
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Good job Cindy! Those little buggers are REALLY hard to get!!!
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Ah, so kind. Thank you Tina~
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Been buzzed all day here by my brood 🙂
Love them
Yours are so cute 🙂
Mine buzz me then sit beside me I need to save for a GOPRO camera lol
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Isn’t just a remarkable gift how tame they become. The hummingbirds are roadrunner are like part of our family. The roadrunner is always watching me. Hilarious. He’s people watching~
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🙂 My time in the desert was never complete with out a Roadrunner sighting 🙂 oh how my Dad loved that cartoon he was a very funny but smart ass type lol I get that from HIM lol
Love my critters truckers used to call me Ellie Mae 🙂
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Elllie May was a cutie among those Clampetts, in her daisy dukes!! You and I must be exactly the same age. Remember Miss Hathaway?? What a crack up. She needed to drink more of Granny’s moonshine to lighten up. What was the guy who was going to “be a brain surgeons” name? Jethro… We are definitely Holler hillbillies and proud of it too!! lol! Stop on by for some possum pie~
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Technical questions: lense? shutter speed? F-stop? We have worked on developing a variety of plants with flower from March through September when the humming birds settle around our field. We usually hear them buzz past us before we spot which flowers they are sampling. While lore had humming birds coming to red flowers (which they do like), we find them on just about any color flower that has necture. In constrast, the toad which I post photos of today could sit still for days at a time, except to croak for love.
Oscar
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LOL!! But do you know about cattle???? 🙂 Yes, I tried to stay with a consistent color scheme at The Holler, blues and purples and pinks and the hummingbirds are all over the place. Of course nature adds her own colors, such a orange California poppies. The hummingbirds aerial combat is hilarious to watch. They are lethal little guys. As far as technical aspects of the shots, my Sony HX300 deserves all the credit. It is truly amazing technology. It has a 50X lens. I set it on automatic for the hummingbirds because the Sony knows best. The only thing I adjust is the zoom. The HX300 came out in April of this year and I snagged one before the formal release. My other camera is also a Sony.
I love your blog and your life. So impressed with your sustainability~
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Thanks for reading (and back reading, which can get overwhelming). 50X zoom! Wow! We upgraded our digital cameras last year prior to going on our South Africa safari. I’m really not a die-hard photographer, but enjoy capturing images of the landscape around us. I have just recently started using “photography” as a tag on posts. I plan to go back and edit prior posts that included photography as a tag to make finding those easier for folks interested in this. Gotta go. Goat and ducks want to be fed… berries await picking… and we start County Fair season this evening at the FFA stock sale. I’ll get around to writing about chest freezers one of these days. 🙂
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You, my friend, have a rocking life! South Africa was awesomeness wasn’t it…..We’re yapping about going back……
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Just this morning I found a tiny feather. The length maybe and inch, but maybe the width of a pencil. I think it might belong to one of the baby birds in the nest in the front bushes – it is just grey and not irridesent. It wasn’t a down feather though. Hmmm…I wonder if I can find bird identification through feathers via google or bing? Until then I’ll just add it to my feather jar. 🙂
I think I did see a humming bird near one of my butterfly bushes the other day….
Lovely photos. 🙂
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Oh yes they love butterfly bushes!! I have lots of them. You could try to type the feather identifiers into google and see what you get. Google has yet to fail me~
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Great photos
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Thanks I have such fun practising!
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Beautiful, I miss seeing them fly in and out of my trumpet flowers – had to chop them down when we re-did the fence and they never grew back!
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I used to have trumpets at my prior abode. I trained all along the roofline. Beautiful flowers!
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Yes and the hummingbirds loved them.
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Indeed!!
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You have very good shorts of these tiny beauty!
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Aren’t they little beauties and such power packed personalities to go with their good looks!
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Thanks for showing us more images of how these magnificent creatures lure us with their jeweled presence.
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Thank you for appreciating them!
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Hummingbird flying away
My dream of seeing it with my own eye
That it hovers in mid-air
Must see it’s a fact in reality
Children’s book never lies
So there must be a bird within reach
So tiny but colorful like flowers
It’s itself is a flower approaching another
Sweet nectar for reward
Ultimate happiness of the true world
Everyone has his or her world
Wherein tied together for happiness pursued
One thing after another of the mundane life
Yet the dream of excursion never forgotten
If it flies away, I’ll fly faster
With the heart of decades ago
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WOW!! THis is why I LOVE blogging. Talented, creative, kind people like you! Bravo. You have touched my soul. Thank you for such kindness. The hummingbirds thank you too! Fly, Fly faster~
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Extraordinary up close photos! You are amazing!
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The feeling is mutual ma deah!
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I am so envious, Cindy. I’ve seen only one hummer at the new house and only once at that…, and that was before I put out the feeder!
The photos are beautiful, especially the one at rest.
Liked them all, but that one the best.
Hugs, Cuz…
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Hugs back to you cuz. Maybe the hummingbirds didn’t bond with the previous owner and will take a while to know you……and kitty the cat!!! 🙂
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The LilyCat loves birds. She sits at the window and talks to them all the time. The finches and chickadees have no fear of her as they will come right up to the window feeder with her there.
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Sweet little Lily love the tweeties! I have a friend whose cat is named Lily Pad~
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Fabulous pictures. Did you not see any snakes after all?
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I daresn’t say (love this word, is it a word?) because I am going to post on it and I don’t want to wreck the, errrrr….. suspense? Methinks I am over-estimating the qualities of my suspensefulness (is this a word? I love it too). I am not a bewitching writer of tales like you, so I need all the props I can get. This is a belabored way of saying….come back and find out!! LOL!
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You definitely have your own magic! I love your pictures. I’ll come and look again soon. Snakes ought to be elusive and hard to track down. In fact, not seen or heard would work for me. I don’t mind pictures, though.
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Not seen, heard, stepped on, or biting my son works for me!! 🙂
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These are perfectly lovely. I so enjoy Miller and he certainly lived up to his quote, didn’t he? 🙂
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Yes. I can imagine him watching the hummingbirds hover with invisible wings, since they beat so fast, seeing them as if standing still in the air. Awesomeness~
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Excellent clicks!!!
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Merci beau coup to you!
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Nature never ceases to amaze me! Stunning birds, and very well photographed!
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I share your amazement with the natural world. It clarifies that we are simply a very small part of the world of nature. This is very calming for me. Thank you for your kind comments~
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Oh! What colour!
Love the simplicity of your poem between the pictures.
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Awww!! Thank you so much. Very kind and appreciated. Congrats on the publications of your two books! What an achievement. Bravo~
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Stunning shots…………………..
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So happy you like them! Thank you~
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Phew, I needed a rest like that hummingbird! Their activity is incredible; I can sense it all the way over here.
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Isn’t it wonderful. I love having you as a friend. It is like you are here, or I am in NZ!
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We are only separated by a nano second 🙂
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Yes but how can I eat your desserts and drink your tea????
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Ah, my humming birds are back; thank you for the beautiful effort in capturing them.
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Returing hummingbirds are a cause for celebration! Congrats & thank you~
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And I say, without jest,
“This post,” Cindy Knoke,
“Is one of your best.”
Great photographs, nice rhyme..
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Ooooh! Now you are writing poetry to go with the photos. Did I ever tell you that you rock Russel? Because you seriously do~
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Of course they are all fantastic, but that first one was like a dope-slap upside the head! Gorgeous!
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What an awesome possum comment. Thank you! Makes me happy~
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Hats of to your photographic skills. Exquisite.
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Hats off to your kindness. Thank you~
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WOW! Incredible photos. Can’t wait to share with my little guy when he wakes up, he will love them! Thanks Cindy, you are amazing!
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That makes me really happy. I always imagine my photos for children. They have the natural wonder and I would be thrilled to see his reactions. Thank you and him!!
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Amazing photography, Cindy. What gorgeous little creatures these are. 🙂
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They pretty much have Jim and I wrapped around their little birdy toes. Jim will look at me reproachfully, “The feeder is empty….” and I dash out. We make plans to keep it full when traveling. I swear they know it too. They live her year round and are little despots!! lol!
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Beautiful Cindy.
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Merci beau coup!
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Cindy, how lucky you are to be able to capture these photos. I love Hummingbirds, but they don’t seem to come into my yard. I have seen them in my mom’s yard.
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Plant flowers, flowers and more flowers, and you will have hummingbirds, hummingbirds and more hummingbirds! The flowers bring them and the feeder keeps them~
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OK
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Beautiful!
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Merci beau coup!
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Speechless….
It looks like I’ve missed your recent post from my reader 😕
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The reader really messes up. It burps and hiccups, and deletes posts and time frames, forgets to put posts you follow in your reader etc. Frustrating to say the least when you miss people you follow posts. It happens to me. They also recently elimated about four days worth of posts from the reader and then they reappeared many hours later.
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That’s good to know. I thought I lost a number of blogs after I came back from my two-week vacation. A couple of days ago I sent a complaint through their survey.
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Amazing pictures Cindy
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Very kind of you! Thank you & loving your blog- So interesting and diverse! Cheers to you~
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thanks Cindy…that’s a compliment to hear from you really 🙂
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Lovely Cindy, catching up on you is like taking in fresh air at dawn.
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Even your comments are beautifully poetic! Merci~
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Amazing Hummingbird photos!
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So glad you think so! Thank you~
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