They fulfil the air with their humming; constantly we hear them near by our ear, flying very narrow over our head. It is nearly impossible to follow them with the eyes. If you try anyway, becoming dizzy or even crazy is imminent. It is a madhouse, in which we are standing.
It’s the fault of the stations of nectar, which are attracting large quantities of honey suckers from the forest.
The advantage is obvious, because you can observe the racy flyers much better than in free nature without disturbing them. Unfortunately there is also a big disadvantage. Through the huge food supply the birds have a work over to meet their demands. This alone wouldn’t be bad. But sadly they dust less trees in the ambience this way. Reason enough that their shouldn’t be too much of this open-air enclosures.
In fact the stations are a great opportunity for photographers to get the birds in front of the lens. Even so, getting a passably picture is not certain, because the hummingbirds are not only too fast, but also mostly too small for the auto focus, so that the camera is focussing the background - and following a hummingbird with the camera is impossibly.
So there is no way but focusing the camera on a point and waiting for a bird flying exactly to this special point. But if everything works and you succeeded you will nearly always have shot a spectacular picture. And you may delete lots of photos “with no flower bird” (-;
