Tag: annas hummingbirds
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Anna’s Hummingbird with Winter Bud
I’m taking a year-long course called Phlorography Online 2022 where many teachers share techniques for expanding the student’s photographic repertoire. For my hummingbird photograph above I practised creating a hand-painted background digitally and finished the image with a slight canvas texture. Anna’s hummingbirds spend the winter on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada, where…
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Anna’s Hummingbird
For some reason the pair of Anna’s hummingbirds (a male, shown above, and a female) have disappeared from my yard. The pair had taken up residence this winter while we had some unusually harsh conditions…over a foot of snow had fallen and we had below freezing temperatures for a couple of weeks. The male hummer…
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Male Anna’s Hummingbird Talking
I’m working on a series of photographs of the two Anna’s hummingbirds (a male and a female) that have taken up residence in my back yard here on Vancouver Island, British Columbia this winter. Both hummers allow me to get quite close to them. This photograph was taken after over a foot of snow was…
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Tough Times
I have to admire our Anna’s hummingbirds that spend the winter here on the coast of British Columbia, Canada. No winter migration for these tough birds! It doesn’t normally snow all that often here but this year has been extraordinary. The hummingbirds and other wildlife have been forced to overcome many adversities including snowfalls of…