At about 3 years old I discovered hummers and have just been thrilled with them for 54 years now. One lit on a rosebush right by our steps and my father said to look there at the little creature (it was a baby and looked no larger than a bumble bee). I told him that I wanted to pet it and for him to catch it. He said no that it would die in being captured. But looking at your pics, I think they could be tamed well enough to maybe touch. My father would have loved these pics.

One summer I was eating a bowl of ice-cream in the backyard where we have had a population of hummers and a big ruby throated beautiful male came and lit right on top of the vanilla mound of ice-cream and ate. He flew around and came back for more several times. He was the fatest and biggest hummer I have seen but I just let him eat as much as he wanted. I guess it was okay for him to eat it. jj in Kansas City, Missouri.