taken in New Jersey in Feb 2013. it spent the winter at the Palmyra Cove wildlife refuge not far from Philly. they had a feeder set up heated by a lamp so it could eat as it was very cold and the water would freeze quickly.I was using the 600 F4 and D7000 was tough getting as it moved constantly and was very small and hard to get focus lock plus was always behind branches and was hard to find in the lens Migration Long-distance migrant. Rufous Hummingbirds travel nearly 4,000 miles from breeding grounds in Alaska and northwest Canada to wintering sites in Mexico. They travel north up the Pacific Coast in spring and return by the Rocky Mountains in late summer and fall
