At the watering hole you meet all kinds--

[packman]

[2naSalit]

1. Beautiful shot!

Hard one to catch!

[shraby]

2. It's a great one!

[Kurt V.]

3. wow!

[Rocky888]

4. You warmed my heart ❤️

[Aristus]

5. I once saw a hummingbird so small that at first, I thought it was a very large bee.

n/t

[eppur_se_muova]

7. Hummingbird Hawk Moth ?

[Aristus]

8. I suspect so.

The one I saw had more of the iridescent color we expect of more typical hummingbirds.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

12. Awwwww! 💚

[Basic LA]

6. Outstanding shot !

What an interesting sight.

[Bluepinky]

9. Beautiful! Love how the different species can drink water together, no fuss or bother.

[Nictuku]

10. Bees keep swarming my hummingbird feeder

It really bums me out because I really enjoy both the birds and the bees. But I can't even walk out in the back yard because so many bees are at the feeder. I have had to take it down.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

11. Why not set it where the bees can still get it,

but it won’t interfere with people? Sounds like the bees need it!

Unless they’re actually yellow jackets...eff them, they suck. They don’t even pollinate.

[Nictuku]

13. I was thinking about that.

I could move it and just call it the bee feeder. We do have a hive on our property. We call it the 'Mother Hive' because it puts off 2-3 swarms each year. We call our neighborhood bee keeper and she comes to collect the swarms before they move off. The honey from our local bees is out of this world!

I do keep a lot of flowering plants, specifically for the bees, but this time of year it is dry and crispy outside (fire season scares the hell out of us), and there are not many flowering plants, so I agree, I think the bees do need it.

When the bees swarm it like they have been doing, the hummingbirds have nothing to do with it. I'll just see if I can find a place to put it for the bees and out of the human pathways.

The odd thing is I have lived here for 8 years, and this year is the first year that the bees have done this.

[sarge43]

18. Why not put out sugar water for them?

Near the hive with a 50-50 mix of water and granulated white sugar. They'd prefer that to the hummer 4-1 mix. We do that in the spring before bloom starts.

[Nitram]

14. Great shot!

Hummingbird feeders have to be designed to keep bees and yellow-jackets out.

[AZ8theist]

15. Man those bees look angry!!

[hostalover]

16. Beautiful shot!

[Equinox Moon]

17. Wow! Is this even possible? Was it photoshopped?