Antillean Crested Hummingbird

I’ve fallen off the blog wagon again but I’ve got a few images from our trip to St. Lucia finished up so I’m back to trying again.

This is an Antillean Crested Hummingbird, the other type of hummingbird that we saw on vacation. They sat still even less often than the Green Throated Caribe’s did, but this particular male favored this branch at eye-level under the canopy of a fragrant tree, so it was just a matter of being patient enough. Which was hard since the sun and the surf beckoned me at the same time.

Processed in Photoshop CS4 with the help of Nik Software Plugins and sharpened with Tony Kuyper’s action.