i think i have 3 that come daily to my feeder.. never did i see one until i moved down here.. they really are a magical bird

Ohhhh, I love your banana clump!! HUGE and so green and lush.
I never thought about hanging the feeder under there.

It is my best clump of bananas ( Basjoo ). The hummers seem to like buzzing in and around it chasing each other.

We've had a number of them on the feeders and flowers. You'd think they'd realize there is plenty of food to share, but they spend a lot of energy chasing each other away from favorite spots. They're visibly fattening up so they can fly across the Gulf. How do dey do dat???

I put up a feeder a couple of weeks ago when I saw some in the woods nearby (hopefully eating asian tiger mosquitos!). They certainly have been guzzling the nectar down. I've seen two at once but I think I recognize 3 individuals at least.

I was just cleaning & refilling the feeder again and got buzzed by one. They sound mighty big when whizzing past your ear at 30 mph! Hopefully by next year I'll have some natural food for them, too.

I've never had a hummingbird feeder before. When should I take the feeder down in the fall? I see "October" and "when they leave" online, but if you guys have more specific info that would be helpful.

Last winter I put up a regular bird feeder and all winter I enjoyed 1) watching the squirrels be frustrated by the weighted mechanism and 2) seeing tons of birds I have never seem before; I assume they were stopping by the diner on their way through.

High octane nectar and lots of luck.

Lots of luck is right, Bamatufa.
During the years I was a boat captain in the Gulf oil fields, the migrating birds would land on our boat, totally exhausted. Most all of them would die there, if they landed.

I've thought about that a lot, and unscientifically have my ideas of why they died. In salt air, or with salt spray getting on their feathers, they would become heavy. And if they landed, they would need fresh water, but also they would need to dry their feathers. And, they would preen their feathers to clean them and get them back in place. I submit that preening causes them to ingest sea salt, and their little systems cannot take that.

Only once during my years on the water did I catch one of those birds, and I washed it off and left it in a dark place. We had no live insects to feed it, but when morning came, I released the little guy, and off he flew. I hope he made it. It was not a hummer though. Many of the offshore oil platforms have colonies of birds living on them, some are swallows which catch bugs in midflight. But I've seen them seeking a bug near the water, and a wave rise up and slap them out of the air. There they floated with wings outspread, with death all around them from fish or gulls, because they could never rise to fly again.