Thanks, folks, I’m ready to live in the yard until first frost. 2 cameras used here, the 1st shot is from a Panasonic FZ30, the others from an old Olympus C2100UZ, only 2 MP, but the best critter camera ever made. It just won’t make big pictures. The early airshows are to impress mates, later when the chicks are flying, they are from sheer exuberance, it must be a blast to fly like they do. Amazing thing, they just flew across the Gulf of Mexico, non stop, to get here. That is a big puddle of water!
Wow, these birds don't have much of a glidewing- flapping all the time. That's very impressive.
A few years ago we had about ten hummers drinking from our feeder. That was when I noticed their flying antics. We had one big feller sitting on a volleyball net just outside my kitchen window every morning who'd look left and right (180 degrees) for un-wanted 'feeders'.
He'd let some of the tiny ones feed, but would run-off others in a way that would be the envy any fighter pilot. Little Blue Angels, really. Their areobatics are, though extremely fast, quite impressive- nothing else like it.