One of my favorite pastimes is to photograph hummingbirds in my garden. August is the best time to photograph them in Maryland. Mostly we have Ruby-throated hummingbirds in Maryland. Usually by the first week in September they become scarce. Last year we did see them well into September. I think it had something to do with the weather. The trick to photographing hummingbirds is to stake out their food source and setup waiting for them to arrive. Otherwise I find that they are too fast to track manually. hey can fly up to 45 mph. The first photo below is a shot without flash resulting in a image where the wings are blurred in motion. Note that I put some hummingbird food into the flower to attract the hummingbird. Normally they wouldn't feed from a day lily. The second photo is one I took using flashes to freeze the motion of the wings. This is technically harder to do and requires more equipment. In this case the hummingbird feeder is just out of the frame to the right.