It's fun to watch their aerial aerobatics when they fight over the feeder! Quite entertaining.

what amazed me, and i am a birder and have seen many birds and can tell most by calls, was how tiny they really are and fast like a cartoon fast they are wonderful to watch

They love Beebalm...Cindy but they also come to our feeder. Too early for them although the orioles suprised me by returning yesterday.

Whuh? You mean chapstick from Burt's Bees?:confused:

LOL...it's a flower, some people call it monarda. And some people make tea from it's leaves. It comes in red, pink and white but trust me..they love red the best!

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http://pss.uvm.edu/pss123/permonar.html

I love hummingbirds. Isn't it Brain that has them by the droves???

Put something "good" in your feeder, Cin~ It just might attract me. haha

Have mercy, I'm not putting Jager in it!:Noooo:

Then you would have aerobatic Hummers!!!

http://sl.glitter-graphics.net/pub/1...b3rc8vhib9.gif

I just do the sugar water thing and they love that. They won't even touch the nectar you buy anymore. We had them nesting here for the last two years, so sugar must be okay.

Last year we watched a baby starting to fly. ou think the adults are tiny - this guy was really itsy bitsy.

:)