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I miss labeled my previous humming bird photos. This is the little hermit humming bird and what a difficult one to capture he was. It was raining and heavily overcast so I had to really crank up the ISO and still had a hard time getting a semi-clear photo.
Dane, your humming bird photos are really very good. I wonder if anyone has ever timed the number of wingbeats per millisecond! What a contrast to the static aracari with its vicious looking beak. Whatever does it eat - tree-trunks?
Thijs, I never complimented you on that limpet at #207.2, it's superb. I love the composition.
Ivy
"To thine own self be true.......
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
I think the acari eats mostly fruit with it's large beak, like a toucan. They are much quieter though, occasionally making a squeaking sound. Toucans make a "grinding" sound like a very loud, overgrown tree frog.
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I really notice a difference between humming birds. Those that summer in North Carolina (Ruby Throated) have a very fast wing beat with a very noticeable hum sound and they almost whistle as they cut through the air when flying fast. When out hunting I can hear their chirp and the humming of their wings as they weave through the forest. They are constantly chirping and fighting so there is no doubt they are around.
In northern Costa Rica most humming birds that I see are almost silent in flight. When they change direction or really maneuver you can hear the wings a bit but they are just big enough and their wing beat slow enough that you have a hard time hearing it.
Further south the humming birds are so large you don't really notice that they are humming birds until they hover in front of a flower. Their beak is longer than the entire birds I have at have at home. Their wings making a fast fwap, fwap flapping sound more like a normal bird's wings.
Thanks for that info. Dane. You certainly know your humming birds. I know next to nothing about them and assumed that all had an extremely fast and probably silent wing-beat. I find it very interesting that the Ruby Throated one can be heard so clearly even when not right close up to you. Thanks again.
Ivy
"To thine own self be true.......
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
Reminds me of a documentary I saw a few nights ago, on NG Channel... a lion had tried it's luck on a hippo.... this would be the doom of the lion, because the hippo bit off the whole mouth of the lion... the lion could no longer bite, eat nor drink and was effectively sentenced to death... this scene is really glued to my mind.
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