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Barry W. Hollritt, 2010

I  photographed this wonderful hummingbird as it hovered over our feeder in Ohio.  What’s wonderful about the image is that I’ve actually captured the hummingbird extracting the nectar from the feeder,!  The red colored line of nectar at the end of the beak is actually nectar being drawn out of the feeder in a straight line into the hummingbird!  Over three years earlier I photographed an amazing image of a cardinal through my back window and this image of the hummingbird is also photographed through the glass window!  The hummingbird is a small bird of the trochilidae family.  This bird is the smallest bird and also the smallest of all animals to have a backbone!  To know that the hummingbird can rotate its wings in a circle is evident in the way I’ve captured the movement of the wings in this image.  The bird is both easy yet difficult to photograph since it moves so quickly, yet at moments hovers quite motionless allowing for an image to be preserved. This particular afternoon I caught the female in a wonderful light as she was spending some time near the house on her migration to the south. You may  find the photograph exciting enough to increase your heart rate, but keep in mind that a hummingbird’s heart rate can reach up to 1260 beats a minute!