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Last week I shared the "Little General" with you. This is not him but another of my incredibly bold hummers. I think that I counted five different territories all being guarded by their own little general. I selected this image and cropped it as such to give you all a better look at structural color. Again structural color is created by light passing through a thin opague layer on the feather that bends light and creates brilliant iridescent color. The resolution is sharp enough in this photo to actually look at the veins on the feathers. Different thicknesses in the opague layer create different colors. When the light does not strike the opague layer just right the feather appears gray or black. For the technical buffs, I was approximately 15 feet away from this little guy. I was using a Nikon D2X body with and old Nikon 600mm f4 manual focus lens. I also had a Tamaron 1.4 tele-converter on the lens. Ofcourse as alway the lens was mounted on a Bogan tripod. My ISO setting was 400, f-stop 8, shutter speed 1/100 sec with no compensation. I ran the fine jpeg image through Noise Ninja to remove the grain and improve the resolution.