Thank you for visiting and welcome to my blog.Below you'll learn how to attract and what to feed humingbirds of North America.
 One great way of attracting Hummingbirds is by planting a garden made up of their natural and favorite plants,vines,trees,and schrubs.Here are a few of their favorites,these will also help guide them to your feeder if that has been a problem. 
 From top to bottom these pictures are as follows.
1st is Wild Bergamot



2nd is Texas Sage








3rd is Red Buckeye
















4th is Coral Honeysuckle














5th is Columbine














6th is Anise Sage"Black and Blue"
















7th is Agastache "Firebird"














8th is Prairie Blazingstar












9th is Trupet Creeper

Trees and Shrubs                               

• Azalea
• Butterfly Bush (Buddleia)
• Cape Honeysuckle
•                                                                                             Flame Acanthus
• Flowering Quince
• Lantana
• Manzanita
• Mimosa
• Red Buckeye
• Tree Tobacco
• Turk's Cap
• Weigela

Vines

• Coral Honeysuckle
• Cypress Vine
•                                                                                            Morning Glory
• Scarlet Runner Bean
• Trumpet Creeper

Perennials

•                                                                                  Bee Balm (Monarda)
• Canna
• Cardinal Flower
• Columbine
• Coral Bells
• Four O'Clocks
• Foxglove
• Hosta
• Hummingbird Mint (Agastache)
• Little Cigar
• Lupine
• Penstemon
• Yucca

Annuals

• Beard Tongue (and other penstemons)
• Firespike
•                                                                                                        Fuchsia
• Impatiens
• Jacobiana
• Jewelweed
• Petunia
• Various Salvia species
• Shrimp Plant

Hummingbirds get the energy they need to maintain their astonishing metabolism primarily from flower nectar and the sugar water that they find at feeders (here's the recipe). For protein and other nutrients, they also eat soft-bodied insects and spiders; I like Bob Sargent's perspective: "Hummers need nectar to power the bug eating machine that they are." Think of them as miniature flycatchers, and sugar is just the fuel for getting their real nourishment. You might try setting out some overripe fruit--banana peels are good--to attract flies for your hummers. If you have developed a particularly entertaining method of providing bugs for their dining pleasure, I'd be more than happy to publish it here. :-) Meanwhile, let's talk about nectar feeders, some of which are reviewed on another page.

A Little History...

The device pictured at left is an example of the first commercially-available hummingbird feeder. It was designed by Laurence J. Webster of Boston for his wife, who had read a 1928 National Geographic story about feeding hummers from small glass bottles. Sometime between 1929 and 1935, Webster had his design produced by an MIT lab glassblower (possibly James Ryan). In 1947, National Geographic ran an article by Harold Edgerton about his newly-invented strobe flash, which included photos of hummingbirds at Webster's feeder. Interest was aroused, and in 1950 the Webster feeder was offered for sale by the Audubon Novelty Company of Medina, NY.

Choosing a Feeder

There are many imaginatively-styled hummingbird feeders available today, and they're sold in stores ranging from birding shops and garden centers to discount marts, as well as by mail order. Most feeders are made of plastic, glass, and/or ceramics. Since feeders are much too recent a development for hummingbirds to recognize instinctively as food sources, they must learn to use them, which they do from watching other hummers and though their own natural inquisitiveness. If your birds seem to prefer one style feeder over another, it's probably a simple matter of familiarity. If you change feeders, they may not feed immediately from the new one, but they will adapt; it may help to hang the old feeder, empty, next to the new one.
Any feeder can attract hummers, so perhaps the most important design feature to look for is ease of disassembly and cleaning. In this respect, the basin-style feeders are much, much better than the inverted-bottle types. I recommend the HummZinger and similar well-designed basin feeders for their ruggedness as well as their ease of maintenance. Hummingbirds will come to any feeder that holds fresh syrup, so you might as well buy one that's easy for you to keep up - if it's easy, you're more likely to do it faithfully, and that's important.
Should you buy a feeder with perches? Many photographers prefer not to use perches, because they can get better pictures of hovering birds. But hummers live at the edges of their energy envelopes, and perching saves a lot of calories. Consider that when hummingbirds feed from natural flowers, they spend very little time at any one blossom; on the other hand, they may drink from one feeder port until they are satiated, and hovering is considerably more tiring to them than normal flight. Give them a break, and provide a place for them to rest. After all, many hummingbirds spend around 80% of their time perching anyway, on twigs and leaf stems.