Attack!!!!

[icarus]

Thanks all. A nectar source is all important to these guys and they fight for it big time. AZ is in a big drought and there were no flowers thus there was a lot of competition at feeders.

Jeff, it was shot at 1/6400.

[Klaus DK]

nice shot

[Cdug]

We have a couple feeders just outside our porch window where we view them at every meal time. Have seen them jab at one another and do lots of chasing but never got a shot like yours. Great work. Our next door neighbor has six or so feeders and sometimes up to a couple dozen or more birds at a time, usually all very congenial! We're on a little river 7 miles west of Cheasapeake Bay in VA

[icarus]

thanks, Klaus.

Cdug, your Ruby Throated hummers just aren't as pugnacious as these Rufous. Sometimes there would be 20 hummers trying to get to 8 feeding ports, so it made for a lot of competition, but Rufous are very aggressive with other hummers.