Feed Me ... Mommy! - Click image to view larger!

Ahhh, absolutely perfect, one of your best shots!  In addition, the very real personalities (or my very real perceptions) are hilarious.  Mommy is physically recoiling from the somewhat grown "baby", while baby doesn't want to give up the free meals.  Great stuff... Mike

Thanks Michael! .. click the arrow on the right and you will see how fat the baby is compares to the mother. I think generation X, Y ... ect of our real life are no different from my observation  :-)

Wow, LOL... time for some "Failure to Launch" methods!  (A silly movie that had a few good lines.)....  Mike

LOL, ... Mr. Mancil .. I would like to introduce the next star of 'Failure To Launch II' ... 

Previously, I see baby hummer around no more than a day or two once they are fly off the nest but 10 days is pushing it, I think. May be I should do more reading on HB to know what's the normal beak-fed cycle after the baby fly off the nest and see how off-beat this baby is. Great opportunity for me though!

I have enjoyed everyone's comments Tim J.  Besides it being an EXCELLENT capture (sure speaks of what good results glass will give you !) the baby sure looks WELL FED !!!!

Beautiful work Tim!

best regards,Gail

Thanks Gail! Yup, this old 500mm F4 IS is an excellent lens and it's a bargain now that the new 500mm F4 IS II is at least twice the price of this lens. I heard that it's even better than this lens and it's hard for me to imagine of an improvement over this lens. I do like to have the new one for the simple reason that it's 1.5 lbs less in weight and as I get older that would be an important factor to continue hand holding the camera & lens . Simple reason is that I don't get much shot with a tripod at all, I am just no good with tripod.  As for this shot, I was very much at the minimum focusing distance of 15 feet away from the birds and that helps the quality a lot also.

Thanks Phil! It's always a pleasure to have a dialog with you Sir! :-)