An Anna’s Hummingbird hovers while sampling some nectar at our patio garden.
Hummingbirds can also fly sideways, and…backwards!
note: In photographing the hovering bird, I chose a high shutter speed (1/640 second) to ‘freeze’ the bird’s body motion and to illustrate the high speed of the bird’s wings…
(Technical: Canon R5 with RF 100-400mm lens at 400 mm, ISO 2000 at f/8 for 1/640 sec )