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Hummingbird flight studies from my garden in Cibolo, Texas

hummingbird silhouette

hummingbird backpedaling

hummingbird silhouette from underneath

These photographs of hummingbirds silhouetted against an evening sky were taken when a thunderstorm had just finished rumbling away. There were three of them, doing their aerial acrobatics and trying to prevent each other from getting to the feeder. Hummingbirds don't flap their wings like other birds--they move them in a figure-eight formation. This is why they are the only birds capable of flying backwards.

Posted Sunday Sep 05