Sweet baby hummingbird

My birthday is next week, and I found an awesome deal on a zoom lens for my camera.  I found it at Target for only $99.  It is a Canon EF 75-300mm zoom lens.  Today I had my first chance to see how well it works.  We were outside, and my daughter pointed out a hummingbird on the tree.  I ran in to change lenses, and came back out to snap some pictures.  I noticed that there were two hummingbirds at first, but that when I came back outside with my longer lens, there was only one.  I waited patiently, and even sat down for a bit to wait and see if the mommy came back.

It was well worth the wait.  Here is the baby waiting for mommy to come back.

Baby is still waiting.

Here comes mommy.

I am so jazzed about my new lens.  I did have to manually focus because there were so many branches that the camera couldn’t figure out what I wanted it to focus on.  I just manually focused and then stayed in the same spot to take all of the pictures.  The baby stayed in the same place the whole time. 

I have high hopes for things that I will be able to capture now.