Marvelous Spatuletail


Posted by Nate Chappell on Sat Dec 03, 2016 5:52 pm

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Hi everyone, I've been mostly offline for the past month, leading a tour in Peru, I'm back and have finally gotten around to processing an image from it.  This is the male Marvelous Spatuletail, a rare Northern Peru endemic.  We photographed this at Huembo Lodge, while there are some lovely multi-flash photos taken of it and many niced perched shots, I did a search and there aren't many images of this species feeding naturally on flowers as in this shot, so we were thrilled to get this. 
Canon 1DX II, 500F4  1/500 F6.3, iso 1600, Av mode, evaluative metering -1.0, fill flash at -1.7, Gitzo Tripod, Wimberley head.
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by Karl Egressy on Sat Dec 03, 2016 7:04 pm
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Looks great when clicked on, Nate.
 

by Jeff Munoz on Sat Dec 03, 2016 10:34 pm
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What a beauty Nate, AWESOME shot!!!
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by Denis55 on Sun Dec 04, 2016 9:54 am
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Beautiful hummer,with sweet details.
Like the natural environment!
 

by Joe Messenbaugh on Sun Dec 04, 2016 6:00 pm
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Nice....Nate!  The male's tail with "spatules" is spectacular.  The tail resembles that of a male Booted Racket-tail although your bird's longer tail is even more bizarre.  Fortunate encounter with such a rare hummingbird species.


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by Homer on Tue Dec 06, 2016 1:39 am
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Super shot Nate,welldone.
 

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