Slow Motion Hummingbirds 3 HD 720p

A male Anna's Hummingbird puts on a spectacular show in slow motion. The camera setup was placed so that the bird would look in the direction of the sunlight, so that the light angle would cause his irridescent headress to light-up a brilliant red - a difficult angle to get in many cases. Shot with a Canon HF100 using several shutter speeds and framerates for best visualization of the bird's movement and irridescent colors.

The odd bending and alternating wing movements are just an illusion caused by the camera's high speed shutter... something to do with the CMOS sensor scan rate in conjunction with the shutter movement itself. This strange effect only seems to appear when the shutter speed is cranked way up to 1/1000thsec and 1/2000sec. In reality, the wings really do move in parallel, and are fairly stiff so no detectable bending occurs. Better high speed footage can be seen in the later sequels to this show: Slow Motion Hummingbirds 5 (last half), 6, 7 and 8 (links below)
5: http://www.youtube.com/profile?annotation_id=annotation_576046&user=jcmeg...
6: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=jcmegabyte&annotation_id=annotation_5...
7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6n92WeWDtE
8: http://www.youtube.com/user/jcmegabyte#p/c/DF1D8557B15407C1/1/qzLXYLXPkoE

Enjoy the show! :-)

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[daasvand]

I like how the bird goes to the feeder, then looks at the camera to check it out, haha

[jcmegabyte]

@daasvand They do that a lot - wary little birds =) Thanks for stopping by!

[odlaw18]

what a beautiful video. You may want to take a look at my videos of a hummingbird landing on my nose and one landing on my lower lip. I am very careful not to hurt them. Thanks again for this beautiful video.

[jcmegabyte]

You do have some interesting vids :-) Thanks so much for stopping by!

[58MR19]

Just wonderful!!!

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks so much for watching! =)

[JCMDInature]

I'm happy you're enjoying my work - thanks so muich for stopping by! =)

[1wog4ever]

love ur vids so amazing. how awesome r u and the hummers...very i say! =)

[jcmegabyte]

Thanks so much for watching! :-)

[RJM1011]

Just BEAUTIFUL !