Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/01/06

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Anna's Hummingbird
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 10:18:40 +0100
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Beautiful as always! It also spurred me to check wikipedia for the origin of 
the name, and it seems that the French naturalist who gave the bird the name 
was in love with a woman called Anna, of course married to someone else (we 
are talking France, after all ;-))

Cheers,
Nathan

On 5 Jan 2014, at 21:32, Doug Herr <wildlightphoto at earthlink.net> wrote:

> The hummingbird feeders in my yard have attracted several of the resident 
> Anna's Hummingbirds, one of which is an adult male with full breeding 
> plumage (the Anna's Hummingbird is one of the first birds to nest each 
> year).  Today I had the time to take advantage of the little buzz-birds' 
> activities:
> 
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/trochilidae/anhumm06.html
> 
> I'm happy with this photograph.
> 
> technical stuff: R8/DMR, 280mm f/4 APO, tripod & blind.  All comments 
> welcome.
> 
> Doug Herr
> Sacramento
> http://www.wildlightphoto.com
> 
> 
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