#BIFPhotography

2025-05-28

As a beginner, most of my bird in flight shots have been hummingbirds, because they tend to make it easier with their hovering, many comings and goings, & so forth but here is one of my first tries of a flying raptor -- got a few chances because birb was being mobbed by Tropical Kingbirds and had to keep circling around...

Gray-headed Kite...

#WildlifeWednesday #Hawk #Kite #Raptor #BirdOfPrey #Bird #Birding #BirdPhotography #BirdsInFlight #BIFPhotography #BirdInFlightPhotography #Photograph

A kite with checkerboard underwings and a grayish head is flying overhead across a pale pink partly cloudy sky. This is the Gray-headed Kite.  Panama, April 2025. Photo by Peachfront. (Note: The sky was a hard blue so I've done a sky replacement)
2025-01-01

#HappyNewYear #project2025

"if you see the flashing green magic wire-crest and crown, you will have good luck all the year round or i'll know the reason why!"-- male Wire-crested Thorntail

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A hummingbird is flying through several stalks of purple verbena clusters. The bird is a long green hummingbird with an iridescent forehead leading to a tall erect crown that looks like a pair of wires. The birb's tail is as long or longer than the bird's body and comes to a point from which two more wires extend from the end. This is the male Wire-crested Thorntail, and you would not believe how many photos you have to take to capture him at an angle that reveals the green fire in his forehead. Photo by Peachfront. Arena Blanca, Peru. Nov 2024.
2024-12-28

i don't know that people can always get a fair idea of the size of a birb in a picture but Woodstars are truly tiny...

Male Amethyst Woodstar

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A tiny hummingbird flashing a purple gorget (throat) is hovering in a green garden full of tall verbena flowers in bloom.  Arena Blanca. Photo by Peachfront. Nov 2024.
2024-12-26

a throwback to only a few weeks ago

you know i complain all the time about poorly named birbs but this bird has the perfect name! if you don't know it already, try to guess... answer is in the alt-text

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A long slim hummingbird is hovering to feed at purple verbena flowers. With his beak buried in a purple flower,  he's got open wings to display his iridescent green back and long but skimpy lifted crest. His blue tail is deeply forked and appears as long or longer as the whole rest of the bird, crest included. Each fork of the tail ends in a skinny wire. This is a male Wire-crested Thorntail. Photo by Peachfront. Arena Blanca, Peru. Nov 2024.
2024-12-24

"crank up the nectar production, boys, we have incoming!"

i now have 30 different species of hummingbirds in my Northern Peru Workshop album & I still have more remaining to be edited & uploaded-- take a peek if you want, i'm not selling anything 🤣

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A brown hummingbird with spots on the throat is flying almost head-on with long beak lifted to reach a pink flower. This is the Bronzy Inca. Huembo, Peru. Photo by Peachfront. Nov 2024.
2024-12-18

tfw your Marvelous Spatuletail gets shoved out of the photo by a Sparkling Violetear

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A hummingbird with violet on its face and belly dominates the image. Flying with wings spread at the viewer, it tries to stop you from seeing the blurred spatula of a  tail of a bird that this Sparkling Violetear has just shoved out of the upper right of the frame.  But the shape of the departing tail is enough to ID the bullying victim as a Marvelous Spatuletail juvenile. Cocachimba, Peru. Photo by Peachfront. Nov 2024
2024-12-13

"I am not displaying like this because i like you"-- bad attitude Marvelous Spatuletail

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A fancy hummingbird is displaying on a vine with the bokeh of the dappled forest behind him. His crown flashes iridiscent purple, his throat gorget flashes a brilliant turquoise. His two straight tail feathers are pointed straight down, while his very long curly tail feathers are curled around and lifted to flutter their spatulate "butterfly wings" on the ends. This is the adult male Marvelous Spatuletail. Cocachimba, Peru. Photo by Peachfront. Nov 2024.

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