Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: When to expect your hummingbird State by State, 1 by red_princess_71

red_princess_71 wrote:
I have yet to see a HB yet as well, although my sister did and she lives like 3 miles from me, so I know there out there. I got 3 HB feeders up in one spot and one on my front porch where it is always been and i have had 3 HB's come and fight over it. So this year i bought these cute little ones at Lowes and put them with the bird feeders..do you think that the birds scare the HB's away? I am constantly scarin away these big black bird from the feeds so my sparrow's, cardinals, my one canary, and a couple of other kind can eat. Well maybe I will try to move them. I was at this site(http://www.rubythroat.org/FeedingHintsMain.html) and this is what it said... If two or more feeders are used, put them where birds at one feeder can't see the other. We recommend at least three feeders per yard. So maybe i should move mine in shade and away from the other birds.