I took so many photos of this particular Hillstar. It seemed to be the only one in the area. This was high up on a mountain at a brisk elevation. There were no Hummingbird feeders in sight.

Hummingbirds, and some other bird species, often perch on the same exact spots. That makes planning shots a bit easier. I was able to position myself in many different areas awaiting its return to the perches it liked most. I feel like I got quite a few shots that I’m proud of. My goal was to capture many photos with movement because it's more challenging; therefore, I'm sharing those photographs. Though, I also have some pretty portrait photos of this Hillstar just perched too.

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Woodstar Hummingbirds are some of my favorite. I didn’t experience them until I went to Ecuador which is home to a few different species. Woodstars are very small and they float around like Bumblebees, rather than how you normally see Hummingbirds move about. Watching them float from flower to flower is very mesmerizing.

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I will be sporadically posting more photographs from Ecuador. I don’t want to say that they are from Ecuador within each post as that might get repetitive. Instead, you can check the tags associated with each post if you’d like to find out where the shot was taken.

In case you don’t know how blogs work, all posts have assigned “tags” and “categories”. Only the category shows up on the main Field Notes feed. Tags can be found by clicking a specific post and scrolling down past the free wallpaper downloads. Categories are very general like Birds, Mammals, Insects, Fungi, Landscapes, etc. Tags are a little more refined, like Sword Billed Hummingbird, Hummingbirds, Ecuador, etc. You can click on a category or tag to see more photos within that category or tag. So if you click on the bird category, you will see all of my bird posts. If you click on the Hummingbird tag then you will see all posts tagged with Hummingbird. I hope this is helpful along with the search function where you can search any of those terms.

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Another shot of a Black Tailed Trainbearer from my Ecuador trip earlier this year.

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I actually shot this Butterfly in Ecuador earlier this year.

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Will this be the last photograph of this Tayra that I will post? It might be. I think I posted my favorites. You probably like this one the best because its tongue is out.

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My lens was too long for these Horse because they were really close by. And I had to get back in the van to continue our trip to a spot where we would end up finding an Ecuadorian Hillstar (Hummingbird). That is why this is the best photograph I took of these particular Horses. I just couldn’t go somewhere else far enough to get a great photograph of them.

But my friend told me that she loves photographs of Horses after she saw my photograph of Horse 01. So I decided that I’ll share this photograph anyways. I don’t think it’s an excellent photograph, but I think it’s good enough to share.

If you ever wanted to search for a particular photograph or species or anything, simply use the search function on my Field Notes. Just type something in and it will recommend all the posts with whatever you typed, if valid. It’s a very useful feature.

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Another portrait of an Agouti. The slight rain really adds a lot to these photographs. It really wasn’t too rainy while I was in Ecuador but it did a small handful of times.

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