A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion Hobbies, Crafts and Creativity The Bird Lovers Forum Eine Kleine Hummer Video

Here is a short 30 second or so video I made today by putting my camcorder directly UNDER my feeder. In the first part, you can hear ME babbling like an insane geezer. Then, you hear the squeaky, mouse-like, chirp of a Hummer, followed by the hum of its wings and then she comes into view briefly at the end of the video.

WOW!

dang Thorny How do you and Dodge time getting Pic and videos so well of the hummingbirds???

Preparation, preparation, and preparation. I put my camera on a tripod, Adjust the settings, and focus it on one of my feeders, BEFORE the Hummers arrive. My feeders are close together so I can quickly switch from one to another. When the hummer shows up I just have to spend half a second fine tuning, and then just start snapping away. I let my camcorder run for 30 minutes and then break up the segments that have a hummer on them and discard the LOOOONG periods with no activity.

that's so cool.