I'm going to go at my answer a little differently.

First, what camera are you using?

I shoot with a Canon Rebel T5, and any ISO's over 400 show way too much noise or grain with my camera.

Yes, you need a higher shutter speed with hummers, to try to freeze the wing motion.

But in this case, you don't have enough light on your subject to also raise your f-stop to a high enough number to increase your depth of field, without increasing the ISO to a setting that will increase the noise or grain in your pictures.

Also, look in your menu, and see if for some reason your camera has gotten set on a soft focus portrait setting, instead of sharp focus. This happened to me, and it took 7 months to find the error after my camera came back from a trip to Canon, where they checked it over, then they did a factory reset and returned it to me.

So, as someone earlier suggested, try moving the feeder into a better lit location, because you need that light to bring out the iridescent colors in the hummers feathers.

If moving the feeder fails to provide enough natural light, then setting up a remote controlled speed light on a stand might be your next step. You do not want one that is mounted on your camera, because you will be using it for some fill. You don't want it directly aimed level with the flight pattern, but set it so that it is at least a 45 degree or higher angle to use as fill. You should set it in a position, so that the birds are flying towards the light, not away from the light. But you might have to experiment with where you set the light stand.

These are just some suggestions to try, see if they help.

There are many here on UHH who regularly shoot hummers, and may have some better suggestions. But, basically, you need to get more light on your subjects to get better shots of them.

I have been experimenting with hummingbird photos. I have a feeder in my yard, and set my camera on a tripod with Canon 70-200 L f4 lens, set at 70mm. I sit beside camera and use cable release. I was about 10 feet from feeder. I focus on feeder, TV mode, 1/2000, ISO auto, (400) for this photo, the camera chooses f4. This gives me a short depth of field, and the hummers flying around the feeder are not if focus. I appreciate any suggestions on how to get a deeper depth of field so birds in the vicinity of feeder are in focus.

I have been experimenting with hummingbird photos. I have a feeder in my yard, and set my camera on a tripod with Canon 70-200 L f4 lens, set at 70mm. I sit beside camera and use cable release. I was about 10 feet from feeder. I focus on feeder, TV mode, 1/2000, ISO auto, (400) for this photo, the camera chooses f4. This gives me a short depth of field, and the hummers flying around the feeder are not if focus. I appreciate any suggestions on how to get a deeper depth of field so birds in the vicinity of feeder are in focus.

Probably a lot of things will work but not what you did. The more automation, the worse I find. I don't like Auto ISO at all, I've ruined a entire days work with that BS. Full auto is even more useless. The photographer needs to make some choices or the exposure ends up being mindless. Just try Tv mode; any of 1/1000 s, 1/1500 s, 1/2000 s; ISO 800. Or Av mode; with any of f/8, f/11, f/16; ISO 800. Perhaps once you get a few images you like that are the correct exposure, set everything but Focus (AF), to Manual.

Deeper DoF will cause the background to come more into focus and make it even more distracting than it is now. Use a longer focal length. 200mm at F8 and 10ft distance should give you more of what you want and less of what you don't want in your image.

Use a pair of radio triggered speedlights - full power, up close to the feeder - A Canon 600 EX-II-RT will provide a 1/2000 sec pop, while giving you enough light to be able to use a smaller aperture and lower ISO. Also there is the added benefit that if you shoot at the right time of day, you can diminish the amount of ambient light, relying more on the speedlight(s) to illuminate the subject.

The image was taken in 2011, using old stuff. The lens was used at a distance of about 10 ft, near it's minimum focusing distance, which is why the background is not at all distracting. Depth of field is amazingly paper thin at about 1/2" at this distance.

ISO 800 is not particularly clean on this camera, but by exposing to the right (and not so much that stuff is blown out, and careful post processing, you can get a lot of useful information out of that 12 mp cropped sensor camera.

Thanks!

Looks like same bird, different feeder

A little post processing to lighten the shadow on the bird, maybe adding some blur to the background.

I had my camera on a tripod, but I never use a cable release - I find it cumbersome. I get better results just pushing the button, carefully.

You can see the difference you can get by using a longer focal length, both in the detail on the bird, and in the smoothness of the background.

I have been experimenting with hummingbird photos. I have a feeder in my yard, and set my camera on a tripod with Canon 70-200 L f4 lens, set at 70mm. I sit beside camera and use cable release. I was about 10 feet from feeder. I focus on feeder, TV mode, 1/2000, ISO auto, (400) for this photo, the camera chooses f4. This gives me a short depth of field, and the hummers flying around the feeder are not if focus. I appreciate any suggestions on how to get a deeper depth of field so birds in the vicinity of feeder are in focus.