None of us look elegant when we're eating, unfortunately.
I think the Aussies are winning this race. What's going on? I wanna see more Eurasian birds.
Well, the Southern Hemisphere's summery, and Northern's wintery... may have something to do with why the Aussie birds are dominating at the moment.
If you can sit very still, and absolutely not flinch when they dive-bomb you, hummingbirds are very hand-tameable.
I read this, and in my mind I see "If you can sit very still, and absolutely not flinch when they attack, hyper-caffeinated airborne rabid mini-tigers are very hand-tameable."
Seriously, though, their boldness does seem to make them fairly "tameable"/photo-friendly under good conditions. (I've even seen pictures of people feeding them out of their mouths... taking the whole "communing" thing a little too far into the creepy zone, IMHO.) Only managed to get a couple decent shots of them myself over the years, though, admittedly due to not having a lot of time to sit out patiently as one needs to do for most any wildlife photography. Most of the time, they simply mock me for not having a camera - or, like a couple days ago, for having a dead battery.
As for birds I've seen since the first: "spotted" (formerly "rufous-sided") towhees, some manner of wren (Bewick's, I believe), a little vireo, a small woodpecker (downy or hairy - can never tell them apart on sight), American robins, and - of course - the Anna's
mini-tigers hummingbirds. (About a week ago, I saw one at very close range - less than a foot, while I was changing a feeder and naturally had no camera 'cause they always know - that appeared to have damaged the tip of its beak... the upper part, not the whole thing through. Nothing to do for it, unfortunately - it seemed able to feed at the feeder, so it'll survive or it won't.) On the way to and from work I've seen red-tailed hawks, crows, and a couple of ravens.