With their tiny wings and long noses, they fly around the sky and sometimes stop for a nibble. Hummingbirds are popular garden visitors for birdwatchers and wildlife lovers.
Hummingbirds migrate from Mexico in late winter and early spring. Nation Audubon Society recommends putting out a hummingbird feeder in your yard or garden in Louisiana in early March.
Louisiana's most frequent hummingbird is the ruby-throated. Hummingbird feeder tips Hanging hummingbird feeders entice snacking birds with sugar water.
Hummingbirds are drawn to red, hence most feeders are red. The Baton Rouge Audubon Society advises against yellow feeders, which attract bees and wasps.
The Baton Rouge Audubon Society recommends putting up hummingbird feeders in February and leaving them until October. Hummingbird-attracting plants
Gil suggests putting flowers that attract birds in addition to the feeder as most birds are not used to feeding from them.
Gil suggests salvia, wheat celosia, coral plant (Rusellia), cigar plant, hibiscus, impatiens, coral honeysuckle, Turk's hat, blooming maple, shrimp plant, bottlebrush bush, pentas, and cypress vine.