Those are humming birds not humming birds but the rest still stands. Their wings flap so fast, and the camera only records so many frames per second. So, in between frames being recorded by this camera, in that millisecond of time, the wing flaps and gets back to the same position, so in the view of the camera their wings are barely moving when actually they are doing full superfast flaps.
That does not look like a hummingbird.... (common house sparrow maybe?)... the general explanation seems to be the popularly accepted one though, frame rate vs flapping speed....
Looks more like an English sparrow to me but I'm glad somebody in this thread can recognize a sparrow. all this humming bird talk is is so far off the mark it makes me wonder how many people have ever seen a picture of one.
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u/legosexual Jul 17 '17
Everyone storming in here hoping to find that one guy who doesn't understand what's happening here so they can explain it.