![\"\"](\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/black-chinned-hummingbird-1790-ron-dudley.jpg\" "\\"black-chinned-hummingbird-1790-ron-dudley\\"")
<\/p>\nA different species this time, Black-chinned instead of the Broad-tailed Hummingbirds I’ve been posting lately.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n In some years patches of Rocky Mountain Bee Plant (Cleome serrulate<\/em>) flourish on Antelope Island and elsewhere in northern Utah and when you can find bee plant you have a very good chance of finding hummingbirds. These photos of a female black-chinned were taken on the island in August of 2017 but both shots are new to my blog.<\/p>\n The nectar-laden flowers are often covered with a variety of insects but I don’t see any in these two shots.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n This is possibly the same hummingbird on the same August morning but on a different clump of flowers. I like her wing position better in this shot but I’m feeling a little less positive about the out of focus flower behind and beneath her rump.<\/p>\n This is the second summer in a row it’s been very difficult to find bee plant on the island or anywhere else around here so most of the hummers I’ve been photographing have been Broad-tailed Hummingbirds in the mountains. Bee plant flowers most prolifically in early August so there’s still time to find patches of it if they exist.<\/p>\n Thankfully the flowers are long-lasting.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n PS – Like much of the rest of the country it’s hotter than Hades around here (my thermometer registered 105 yesterday) and now fires are springing up in the nearby Wasatch Mountains and elsewhere. Between high temps, fires and smoke and monsoon clouds forecast to move in this week my bird photography trips may be curtailed significantly for a while. <\/em><\/p>\n Another wild card that may affect my shooting activities is Utah’s crazy-ass July 24th Pioneer Day holiday. For days before and after Utah goes berserk with fireworks (much moreso than they do for July 4th) that typically keep me awake, angry and bug-eyed through much of the night so then I have to sleep in during the best early morning light for photography. I’m not a Mormon but my Dudley ancestors were Mormon Pioneers and I’m very proud of and interested in that family history and would love to celebrate it. But those damned fireworks ruin it for me and the holiday does nothing for me but piss me off.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/black-chinned-hummingbird-1717-ron-dudley.jpg\" "\\"black-chinned-hummingbird-1717-ron-dudley\\"")
<\/p>\n