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Hummingbirds

Hummingbirds are tiny creatures, a small bird that feeds on the sweet nectar of flowers. Just as you can bring wild birds to your landscape, you can bring hummingbirds to your backyard or garden by putting hummingbird feeders in your plans.

Hummingbird feeders hold liquid instead of seeds as your bird feeders do. The sweet liquid in the hummingbird feeder is quite easy to make, often sugar and water will do the trick, and as a few drops of food coloring and the tiny creatures will come.

Hummingbirds are small, but very fast. While you are watching the hummingbird feeder, you might see one flitter in and flitter out fast, and another will come along. The hummingbird is attracted not only to the smell of the sweet nectar, the sugar, but also it is attracted to bright colors. Often you will see a hummingbird feeder is created from two contrasting colors, such as red and yellow, or orange and yellow, to catch the hummingbird's eye.

Using a combination of flowers and hummingbird feeders you are going to find your backyard a very exciting place to be, watching all of the hummingbirds fly through your gardens during the spring, summer and fall months.

To bring even more hummingbirds to your gardens and to your landscapes there are several types of flowers that you can plant in your gardens as well.

Just a few plants that you can plant along side your hummingbird feeder are plants such as Bird of Paradise, Bleeding Heart, Butterfly Bush, Cannas, Cape Honeysuckle, Phlox, Plaintain Lily, Red Mint, Red Morning Glory, and Red Sage, but there are many more!

If you want to experience a truly different type of bird in your garden, use a hummingbird feeder and watch these little creatures flitter in happiness around your feeder as they suck on the sweet nectar!