Actually, I'd love to be able to ID the hummers for sure during migration times, but it's usually just too difficult, since Texas has so many species coming through during migration. And I'm not so good at hummer IDs anyway. Later on, only the Black-chinned hummer remains in this area to settle in for the summer nesting. If the darn hummers would show me their gorgets, that would help. Male Black-chinned has a purple one (although I seldom see it), and their beaks are a bit longish compared to their bodies. No magical camera...I took tons of bad photos, deleted almost all of what I took. A good lens for distance shots, skeeter repellent, lots of time to sit in a chair helps, I guess!
