ann sanfedele wrote: >Ditto what Bob said ... except the bright colors are part of what >attracts the hummers... they think they are flowers .. so that is a >predicament.
Serious hummingbird photographers get liquid hummingbird food (basically sugary water) for feeders and use an eyedropper to load it into real flowers. Attracts the birds to a specific flower (at which your tripod-mounted camera and long lens are aimed) and looks much nicer than those ugly feeders. Just sitting down with a big lens and trying to track hummingbirds as they choose their own flowers is a good way to burn off a thousand shots or so while only getting one or two keepers. Mind you, every once in a while you do get a good one: http://www.robertstech.com/pages/fotoblog/7d904208.htm -- Mark Roberts - Photography & Multimedia www.robertstech.com -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
