{"id":139985,"date":"2023-07-27T06:17:34","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T12:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=139985"},"modified":"2023-07-27T07:07:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T13:07:03","slug":"finally-a-juvenile-male-black-chinned-hummingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/27\/finally-a-juvenile-male-black-chinned-hummingbird\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally, A Juvenile Male Black-chinned Hummingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"

Including some of the stinging insects hummingbirds encounter while they’re nectaring on flowers.<\/p>\n

Black-chinned Hummingbirds have been nesting in my neighbor Shane Smith’s yard this summer and I’m pretty sure they’ve also been nesting in my trumpet vine and in one of my five catalpa trees. So for a couple of weeks now I’ve been watching for juveniles but all I’ve seen is adult males and females – mostly the latter.<\/p>\n

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1\/1000, f\/5.6, ISO 2500, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Until yesterday morning when this juvie male showed up. As you can imagine, I was tickled to see him.<\/p>\n

In a recent post I complained about how bright the trumpet vine flowers were relative to the hummingbirds I’d been photographing and told readers that I planned to try photographing them very soon after sunrise in an attempt to mitigate the problem. So that’s what I did yesterday morning and it worked – the flowers weren’t so bright relative to the birds.<\/p>\n

However, in the less-bright light it really slowed my shutter speed so in all of my shots of the hummers their wings were soft with motion blur. I really don’t mind implied motion of hummer wings in my photos, it’s just that my personal preference is to have them sharp.<\/p>\n

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1\/1250, f\/5.6, ISO 2500, Canon R5, Canon EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ll admit that I’m growing a little weary of seeing all of those bright red trumpet vine flowers in my photos, so yesterday I made several attempts to photograph the juvie male in flight with no flowers in the frame (after cropping.) This was my best result.<\/p>\n

In a recent post we had a mini-discussion in the comments about whether hummingbird fear of stinging insects like bees and wasps is instinctive or learned. I leaned toward it being instinctive and yesterday morning, while I was watching the juvie male hummer, that suspicion was reinforced.<\/p>\n

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After a while I moved my lens a little closer to the vine in an attempt to get fairly detailed insect photos. I didn’t get any photos of the juvie male that included a bee or wasp but it was obvious that even at his very young age he had a healthy respect for stinging insects.<\/p>\n

The number of honey bees at the vine seems to almost double from one day to the next and the young hummer behaved just like an adult in their presence. He avoided them, without exception while I was watching.<\/p>\n

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Most of the honey bees, and there were often dozens of them on the vine at any one time, had bulging pollen baskets.<\/p>\n

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It was also apparent to me that the bees were avoiding the wasps. Many wasps view bees as potential food and will even attack their hives so the bees were giving the wasps a wide berth.<\/p>\n

Recently I mentioned how shallow my depth of field is with my super telephoto lens and this photo documents it well. The wasp’s head and thorax are sharp but its abdomen is noticeably soft, due to a lack of depth of field.<\/p>\n

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I’m always open for a photographic challenge so I decided to try to photograph one of the wasps in flight but the best shot I got, this one, wasn’t very sharp. I plan on trying again the next time I have good light on the trumpet vine.<\/p>\n

For some reason wasps in flight give me the willies but I still enjoy seeing photos of them, in flight or not.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Including some of the stinging insects hummingbirds encounter while they’re nectaring on flowers. (6 photos)<\/p>\n

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