Black-chinned Hummingbird (immature male)
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All Photos taken at Bill & Tish McCormick`s feeder at Sunset Beach, NC on December 22, 2000

 

Tea is the name Mary Mc Davit calls her neighbors little winter visitor. Here Tea is visiting the larger feeder at the McCormick`s back porch.

I drove a total of 450 miles round trip to get photos of this rare western hummingbird! Meeting Mary and Bill was a real treat, wish I`d had more time to hang around at Sunset Lakes. I also lucked out in finding 4 Double Crested Cormorants perched on some kind of floats at East Lake while I was there.

These top 3 photos were taken with my Canon A2 camera, 100-400 IS zoom lens and a 1.4x teleconvertor and tripod using Kodak E100 VS film.

 

The photos below are perched shots taken from a distance with my 100-400 IS zoom lens and a 2x teleconvertor.

Black-chinned Hummingbird (immature male)
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Black-chinned Hummingbird (immature male)
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You can see the brilliant neck on this photo.

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