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The spectacular hummingbird is easily attracted to your yard for you to feed, watch, and enjoy. These dainty little birds need to eat at least every 30 minutes during the hours they are awake or they will die.

How to Attract Hummingbirds

There is something I neglected to mention in my article. If you are going to put up feeders for hummingbirds, you need to put something, like a poster, in the windows next to where the feeder will be placed. Hummingbirds will fly right into your window and knock themselves out. I learned this the hard way, or at least the hard way for the poor hummingbird who flew into my window. He didn't die. Since he knocked himself out cold, my daughter and I got to take turns holding his fragile little body in our hands until he recovered consciousness. Something put in the window will make them aware of the fact that a window is there.

Second, I thought you all might enjoy the following link. It was posted in Mercola today.
How to Entice a Hummingbird to Eat Right Out of Your Hand

We have honeysuckle in our yard and they love that. I think that is what attracted them to our yard to begin with.

My husband was lazy and didn't cut the grass in our back yard this summer and that attracted hummingbirds! At which point I figured if any of the neighbors complained, I'd tell them we had a hummingbird meadow. :-)

Julie

Julie, I wish all of the grass in our field and side yard that isn't mowed attracted hummingbirds. You are lucky. All the unmowed grass seems to be doing for us is aggravate our allergies. I'm sure the goats and honeybees are enjoying it, though.

I'm trying to convince my husband that we should just give up on grass and plant a wildflower meadow. Grass actually only bothers my allergies when it is cut (hence it's my husband's job to cut it.) The dogs and cat LOVED the long grass too.

Julie

There are actually quite good reasons that the side yard and the pasture have been allowed to grow this year. The reason it is aggravating allergies isn't the grass, it is the goldenrod growing wild in the grass. Anyway, the bees and goats had best enjoy while they can. It is going to be kept much shorter from now on. I wish it would attract hummingbirds, too, but it doesn't.

I haven't had a feeder out this year. I found it yesterday while cleaning out some storage space in my kitchen. I will definitely put it back out next year. Hummingbirds like to flutter in front of my door (it is glass) and look in at me as if to say,"Where's our food?" It is too late in the year to put it out now.

Julie, I see you live in Oregon. What kind of hummingbirds do you get to enjoy?

LOL Lisa, those birds do the same thing to us! I just love their little antics.

Julie...a wildflower meadow would be beautiful. If you ever do it I want to see photos!