Birdfeeders

 With their beauty and their high-energy activities, it’s obvious why backyard birdwatchers love hummingbirds. They are constantly competing for time at the hummingbird feeders.Therefore it often makes sense to have more than one feeder and keep adding more until the hummingbirds aren’t always competing, but there seems to be enough ports to satisfy the number of hummingbirds in the area. I have found that they also visit the oriole feeders in the yard.

Males are the most beautiful of the species. Females are mostly green above and whitish below. The gorgeous color at the male throat is a patch of tiny feathers called gorgets. Most of us can easily attact these tiny birds by just  putting up bright red hummingbird feeders for most species are found all over the United States except for some areas of the Plains states. Theyare also found in Central and South America. In winter, hummers migrate southward, returning in spring in a migration that follows the spring flowers. Birdwatchers at migration points have noted hummingbirds along the same route as hawks and monarch butterflies.