Female Volcano and Lesser Violet-ear Hummingbirds: Batsu Gardens, San Gerardo de Dota, Costa Rica, December 2022 — As the afternoon went on at Batsu gardens, Marino went out and picked some flowers from the gardens and brought them back to the edge of the upper terrace where he hung them on supports they have for that purpose and sprayed them with sugar water. The hummers came in for photographs! This is one of the first shots I took. That is a female Volcano Hummingbird and a Lesser Violet-ear. Over the next hour and a half, Marino tried different flowers and two different locations and we had a wonderful time photographing the hummers. It is kind of cheating, maybe, but then it looks much more natural than hummers at actual feeders. Sony Rx10iv at 586mm equivalent. Program mode with my custom birds and wildlife modifications. Processed in Pixelmator Pro and Apple Photos. ISO 400 @ f4 @ 1/500th.