You certainly do have some rather special birds in your part of the world
Isn't that the natural light tip of its tail feather?Ok will do.
Isn't that the natural light tip of its tail feather?
could be .... but IMHO it is not connected to the tail feathers .. they do separate, (in fact you can see this on both the original and edited images), and can be semi-translucent at the ends ... but I do not think that is so in this image
or it could be a "bit of fluff" hanging off the ends ....... it depends how you want to look at the image
Just looking at other images of the same species shows a white end to the tail feather e.g. http://www.naturephoto-cz.com/fullsize/mraz/purple-throated-woodstar-98x_14b324.jpg
I will verify and be back.
Well the verdict is no white tail tip so must have been fluff. No flash was on camera.
Lovely bird
whilst I will be accused, by the usual throng, of being totally negative and ultra, ultra critical ........ I'd think about cloning out that white spot below the birds tail ... not sure what it is, but it catches the, (my) eye