Booted Racket-tail


Posted by E.J. Peiker on Tue May 22, 2018 2:25 pm

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Booted Racket-tail - Ecuador
D500, 70-200mm @ 200mm, ISO 200, f/13, 1/200s
Booted Racket-tail approaching banana blossom...
Taken during the last NSN Ecuador Hummingbirds Workshop...

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by Karl Egressy on Tue May 22, 2018 2:31 pm
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Beautiful image, excellent composition and details.
 

by Cynthia Crawford on Tue May 22, 2018 3:45 pm
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Amazing photo of an amazing bird and flower-love seeing birds I've never experienced! You must have been fairly close @200? The flower looks like it could swallow the little bird! ;)
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by E.J. Peiker on Tue May 22, 2018 4:04 pm
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Cynthia Crawford wrote:Amazing photo of an amazing bird and flower-love seeing birds I've never experienced! You must have been fairly close @200?  The flower looks like it could swallow the little bird! ;)
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by KK Hui on Tue May 22, 2018 7:16 pm
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Beautifully framed plus detail ...
Nice one, EJ!
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by Ron Day on Tue May 22, 2018 7:24 pm
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The tail does it for me — excellent image!
 

by himadri roy on Wed May 23, 2018 5:50 am
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Excellent flight frame of this beautiful species sir.
 

by sirianul on Wed May 23, 2018 8:53 am
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One of the most beautiful hummingbird and you got it perfect.

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by Debapratim Saha on Wed May 23, 2018 11:09 am
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Beautiful image, like the fantastic pose of the booted racket-tail.
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by david fletcher on Wed May 23, 2018 12:47 pm
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superb work and clarity EJ. Very easy on the eye
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by Carol Clarke on Wed May 23, 2018 5:09 pm
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Booted and suited! Beautiful image!

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by Cynthia Crawford on Wed May 23, 2018 8:39 pm
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E.J. Peiker wrote:
Cynthia Crawford wrote:Amazing photo of an amazing bird and flower-love seeing birds I've never experienced! You must have been fairly close @200?  The flower looks like it could swallow the little bird! ;)
If you have sugar on your hand they will land on your hand!
Wow- amazing. Not so with the local Ruby-throats-they're feisty little rascals.
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by Biru Mitra on Thu May 24, 2018 1:40 pm
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What a shot this is !!!! I kept on looking at it again and again. Too good a shot.
 

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