Colorado Hummingbirds
If you want to see some cool Colorado Hummingbirds - head up
to the mountains!
The 2nd week of July in 2005, we joined several other families for a campout
at Pickle Gulch, which is a state campground located about 3 miles north
of Blackhawk and 10 miles south of Nederland on the Peak-to-Peak highway.
Our friend CoyC had done his typical excellent job and reserved a group
campsite. We were in #1 and nearby was the "Camp Host" who "lives" up
there in an RV. I didn't catch his name, but real nice guy ... and he had
a humminging bird feeder at the back of his RV. This turned out to be
quite popular with the hummingbirds ... and therefore the kids who were
able to use their fingers as
hummingbird feeders.
I have an action sequence of one sipping hummingbird nectar and even a few pictures of
fighting hummingbirds
that includes a possible duel plus closeups of their talons.
I shot over a hundred pictures just hanging out by the hummingbird
feeder in the evening and the following morning. They really didn't seem
to mind my presence at all, and it's neat to see (and hear!) 'em buzz
into place - there really was a lotta traffic as seen in the pictures;
pretty darn cool birds!
In 2010, I got some pictures of a Hummingbird Nest ... with babies - COOL!
And in 2011, I stumbled across a
Hummingbird Moth in Grand Lake, Colorado
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Eating some sort of bug |
Three hummingbirds in flight at night |
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Hummingbird comes in for a night landing |
Closeup from another night picture |
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Everybody comes back in the morning |
Closeup of the breakfast arrival |
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Another one comes in for a landing |
Hovering Hummingbird - say that fast three times! ;-) |
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Flying UP to the hummingbird feeder |
Photohounds will note the minimal depth of field |
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And for grins, an Alaskan Butterfly shot two weeks later |
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©2005 - Alek Komarnitsky
