When a hummingbird hovers, it is possible to photograph that hovering bird in the air. Their wings flap but their heads seem to freeze in place, making it possible to get the eye tack sharp. When they feed, they will hover over a flower, dipping their beak into the blossom, then flying backwards a few inches, hovering, then returning to the blossom. If the feeders don’t have perches, the hummers treat them the same as they would a flower blossom. They hover, then move to feed, then move backward, making it possible to photograph them without the feeder in the photograph. When the perches have feeders, the hummers tend to land and stay until they are sated for that visit. That’s the challenge of photographing hummingbirds. Most likely, you don’t want to include the feeder in your image and this behavior makes it possible to eliminate it, at the point when the bird backs away from the feeder. They’re pretty predictable and they have a rhythm so you’re able to capture a few shots each time they back away. Once they are finished feeding, though, and they twist their bodies away from the feeder and fly off, it’s pretty hard to get a sharp image