Finally broke the jinx!

[olroy2044]

For about 40 years (no fooling!) I have been trying to get a decent photo of a humming bird.  I've run the gamut of long lenses, tripods with remote releases, bait stations, all to no avail.  Without a camera to hand, I have literally had the little critters hovering within inches of my face!  Pick up a camera, and----POOF!---Humming birds disappear!  I have been almost driven to the flyswatter!

However, this morning, fairly early, I broke the jinx!  Nothing fancy, a manual focus Tamron 103A on the 20d, @210mm actual, (366mm effective) f11,
1/750, ISO 400, handheld:







Then just for grins, one of them landed and stayed there long enough for me to change lenses and try a cheap Vivitar autofocus 100-300 @ 300mm


All photos tweaked slightly for exposure in Auto HDR, and .25% unsharp applied in Gimp. The Vivitar shot got .5%. They weren't at all bad as shot. 

Roy

[Stephen]

Excellent, well done, a difficult subject, especially in the UK!, mind you the Kingfisher is pretty difficult to get shots of, except when watching for fish.

Stephen.

[mickeyobe]

Congratulations Roy.

Lovely pictures of a most elusive prey.

Mickey

Oh. And thanks to the hummingbirds for being so patient with you.

[olroy2044]

Mickey and Stephen, Thank You!