December 20, 2008 at 7:25 pm
#650082
cjboffoli
Participant
hopey: Unfortunately, that is natural territorial behavior and there is nothing you can really do about it. It’s a shame too as they don’t understand that the food supply at a well-tended feeder is unlimited. And they must expend lots of valuable calories chasing away the other hummers.
Lisa: Don’t let the lack of a record of the event spoil how marvelous it was! Trust me, I go through this all the time as a photographer. Sometimes you need to remind yourself to put the camera aside and experience something purely (and through two eyes instead of one).
It’s fair to say the very best photographs in my life that I’ve ever composed are the ones that I saw with my eyes but missed with my camera.