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Attracting Hummingbirds

Simple effective tips for attracting hummingbirds to your yard

by Michael Baughman

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The best way of attracting Hummingbirds is to use a combination of Humming bird feeders and their favorite flowers, plants, shrubs and vines.

My favorite feeder for attracting hummingbirds is the Humzinger Ultra

hummingbird feeder to feed hummingbirds
Aspects 12oz Humzinger Ultra With Nectar Guard

It's only $24.50 and has several features that makes it well worth the price.

The Humzinger has patented Nectar guard tips which are flexible membranes attached to the feed ports that prohibit entry from flying insects, but allow Hummingbirds to feed as usual. The Humzinger also has a built in ant moat that will stop crawling insects from getting to the nectar. It also has raised flower ports that divert rain.

This mid-size nectar feeder has a 12 oz. capacity and can be hung or post mounted with hardware provided. It has four feeding ports for hummingbirds and is made of unbreakable polycarbonate. Easy to clean.

For ease of cleaning and protection from bees, wasps and ants, this feeder can't be beat for attracting hummingbirds

Attracting hummingbirds with feeders

If you can, hang several Humming bird feeders in different locations around your yard. The more feeders you have for attracting hummingbirds, the better the chance that a Humming bird passing through your area will spot one of the feeders.

The best placement for attracting hummingbirds is in the open where they will be easy to spot, within 15 or 20 feet of the nearest cover such as trees, shrubs or vines, and near any flowers that you might already have growing in your yard. The Hummingbirds will spend a lot of time perched in the safety of the cover between trips to the feeder, so placing your feeders close to these types of cover will make it easier for the Hummingbirds to use them. Later, after the Humming birds have found and are using your feeders, you can move the feeders to a shady spot so that the nectar will keep longer in hot weather.

How to keep a single Hummingbird from dominating the feeders

Some of the more dominate Humming birds will try to chase the other birds away from the feeders. Usually it's a dominate male Humming bird that will watch from a nearby perch and give chase as soon as another bird enters the area. One year though, I had a female that would chase the males away anytime they would get near the feeder.

To keep a single Hummingbird from trying to dominate the feeders, use several feeders and place them in different locations where a single bird can't perch and watch all the feeders at the same time. For example, place feeders on opposite sides of the house or where vegetation will hide one feeder from another. As you watch your Hummingbirds you will notice that they will perch on a branch of a tree or shrub, usually in about the same location, to rest and watch the feeder. So position your feeders in locations where they can't see all the feeders from that perch.

Attracting Hummingbirds with Flowers

For attracting hummingbirds to your feeder I suggest that you place some of their favorite flowers close to your feeder. This will provide more color for attracting hummingbirds that might be passing through your area.

One of my favorite ways to use flowers for attracting Hummingbirds is to plant them in hanging baskets. Humming birds seem to like flowers that are tubular in shape and red in color. A couple of favorite Hummingbird flowers that I like to use in hanging baskets for attracting hummingbirds are red Petunias and red Fuchsias. Another choice readily available in hanging baskets, that comes in red, is Impatiens.

attracting hummingbirds with hanging basket of petunias

ATTRACTING HUMMINGBIRDS WITH SALVIA POTS

a basket of red petunias hanging above the feeder for attracting Hummingbirds

2-10 inch pots of salvia on the ground below the window for attracting Hummingbirds

If you are using a window feeder for attracting Hummingbirds, you can mount some kind of simple hook to your window or to the side of your house to hang a basket of flowers next to your feeder.

My other favorite way for attracting hummingbirds to my feeder is to place some pots, or other container filled with Humming bird flowers, on the ground close to the feeder. A container filled with taller growing Hummingbird flowers will work well here. My favorite Humming bird flower for attracting hummingbirds is red salvia. You can get varieties of salvia that grow up to 3 feet tall.

Here is an excerpt on attracting hummingbirds from the "How To Hand-Feed Hummingbirds" video available elsewhere on this site Hand-Feeding Hummingbirds how-to DVD video

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Attracting Hummingbirds by Planting A Hummingbird Garden

If you have more space and are willing to spend more time, you might want to plant a small flowering Hummingbird garden for attracting hummingbirds into your yard.

In your garden you will want plants that will be blooming continually throughout the season while the Hummingbirds are present in your area. You can make a visit to your local nursery to get suggestions on which Humming bird plants are best suited for attracting hummingbirds in your particular area and climate.

In my garden, I have used a combination of annuals, perennials, shrubs and vines, to provide continuous blooms from the Spring through Fall.

For attracting hummingbirds in the Spring, my favorite choice is a red Weigela bush. The Weigelas bloom early and are loaded with lots of color. Here in my garden in northwestern Ohio, the Hummingbirds usually arrive in the Spring just about the time the Weigelas are about to start blooming (usually around the first part of May). Sometimes they might arrive a few days earlier, so I start hanging my feeders in the yard towards the end of April......to be sure of attracting those early arrivals.

Another early blooming favorite that I use in my backyard, are Trumpet honeysuckle vines (Lonicera sempervirens). They will bloom from May to August and have orange or red flowers. If you have a fence or trellis to grow one on, these Hummingbird vines will make an excellent addition to any Hummingbird garden.

The Weigelas will only bloom for maybe a couple of weeks, so the Honeysuckle vines will provide blooms for the Hummingbirds to feed on well into the Summer.

A favorite perennial of mine for attracting hummingbirds, is Beebalm (Monarda didyma). The Beebatm with its scarlet flowers, will start blooming in June and continue to bloom through August.

The final touch to complete my Hummingbird garden and make it totally irresistible to Hummingbirds is to plant some red Salvia (Salvia splendens). In cooler climates such as mine, Salvia are planted as annuals and are replanted each Spring when the danger of frost has passed. Once they are planted and get to growing well, the Salvia will provide plenty of red blooms for attracting hummingbirds and they will provide nectar for the Hummingbirds from Spring right up until frost.

So here's what we have .....we have the Weigela with lots of colorful blooms to attract and hold those early arriving birds, then as the Weigela starts to fade, the Honeysuckle will continue to bloom, to be joined by the Beebalm. As these plants start to provide less and less blooms, the Salvia will reach it's peak blooming period and will continue to carry the load of feeding and attracting hummingbirds the remainder of the time that the Hummingbirds are in your area.

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Hummingbird plants that you might use for attracting hummingbirds into your yard:

Perennials	Vines
beardtongue (Penstemon cardinalis)	trumpet vine (Campis radicans) vine
beebalm (Monarda didyma)	trumpet honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens)
cardinal flower (Lobelia cardinalis) perennial	Japanese honeysuckle (Lonicera japonica)
columbine (Aquilegia) perennial
coralbells (Heuchera sanguinea) perennial	Annuals
delphinium (Delphinium) perennial	salvia (Salvia splendens) perennial/annual
red-hot-poker (Kniphofia uvaria) perennial	tobacco plants (Nicotiana)
lupine (Lupinus) perennial	petunia (Petunia x hybrida) perennial/annual
nasturtium (Tropaedum majus)
petunia (Petunia x hybrida) perennial/annual
Shrubs
butterfly bush (Buddleia daviddi) bush
Weigela bush

Each year there are more and more people putting out feeders so anything more than just a feeder, that you can add to your yard, will only add to your success for attracting hummingbirds.

Enjoy your hummingbirds and I hope this article will help you in your pursuit of attracting hummingbirds