Yellow-Bellied Sunbird
A female Yellow-Bellied Sunbird can take up to a week to build her nest with spider web and rainforest litter
A female Yellow-Bellied Sunbird can take up to a week to build her nest with spider web and rainforest litter
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Aug, 2016Views
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Location
Standing on a ladder at my back door at my home in the Daintree rainforest as the female was building her nest on a tree fern leaf hanging over my roofTime
It took the female Yellow-Bellied sunbird three days all up to build her nest, at around 11am on the second day I managed to capture this shot after about 200 other exposures as the light suddenly changed for the betterLighting
It took a long time for the light to be just right, in the early morning the bird and nest was in shadow and in the afternoon the sun in your eyes, So for an hour around mid day was the best time to shotEquipment
NikonD600 with a 500mmm sigma lens, 1/1600 sec, iso2500, f8Inspiration
Living in the rainforest brings a lot of opportunities for bird and other wildlife photography. I was hoping to show the stages in images of the sunbirds building the nest through to feeding the young when born, however as is common in nature the nest did not last long enough as the fern leaf it was attached to broke. So I will wait till next spring and hopefully have the opportunity to try again.Editing
No, I only had to crop the image slightly to centre it betterIn my camera bag
Nikon camera, a 60mm Nikon macro for those tiny critters that are everywhere, 10mm to 24mm Nikon wide angle for landscape, 70mm to 300mm Nikon for animals and 150 the 500mmm Sigma for the birdsFeedback
Lots and lots of patience, fast shutter speed, and a bit more patience
