Great photos! Beautiful hummer!

What state do you live in? I live in Florida zone 9B.

I've yet to see a hummer in the 40+ years that I have lived here. I'm hoping that changes as I, too, have planted several gardens in my yard for hummers!

I live in Central California. My yard is small. I knew there were hummers because my neighbor has a feeder and I saw one right after we moved in. Our yard was a disaster area, so we took it down to bare dirt and started over. I got to choose all the plants. It was fun.

We have a hummingbird who has chosen our porch, too! she chases other hummers away from our feeder and she sits on the little olive tree I have out there. I read that the females are not territorial, but she seems pretty clear about chasing other birds away from "her" feeder. This morning I woke up to find her asleep, perched on the feeder with her head leaning against it. I was worried about her, but when I moved, she flew off to her perch on the tree!

Live in South Florida and had a very brief visit from hummer yesterday. Got about two inches from the nectar feeder, hovered for a few seconds and then backed off and flew away. Nectar was fresh so don't know what the problem was.