Anna's Hummers

As I've written already, the hummingbirds are spectacular this year, and I'm really enjoying watching them. Tonight my husband and I were sitting on the front porch, and he was sitting in a chair under a hanging basket of assorted flowers, and they kept buzzing near his head, like, as he put it, some kind of big giant bee. He found it a little unsettling...I thought it was very entertaining.

A couple of nights ago, the Anna's hummingbirds were flitting around my vegetable garden. Here they also looked like some kind of giant pollinator. We had had some rain earlier in the day, and the nasturtiums that spill over the sides of my raised bed were still full of rain and the hummers were enjoying themselves flitting from them to the tomatillo blossoms to the purple eggplant blossoms. I really should pinch the eggplant blossoms and let the energy go into ripening the little eggplants that are on it, as it's getting pretty late in the season, but the blossoms are so pretty, and the hummingbirds just seem to love them, so I don't have the heart.

I have tried time and again to photograph these lovely little green birds, but they are just too quick and I don't have the quality of zoom lens I need for the pictures to be any good.