It is about one week from the official day of spring and the birds started to migrate north for the season. Soon, around the first part of May we'll spot hummingbirds flitting around our humming bird feeders, flower and vegetable gardens.
Hummingbirds usually return to the same area they visited last year.
With his metallic green body and brilliant red throat they will look for the nectar feeder in the same place you hung it last season. Many hummingbirds display site faithfulness. The dominant male at both the flowers and the feeders in the area maintain control over the food and habitat by chasing all other male birds away. Male hummingbirds exchange food for sex from the females. Male Ruby-throated Hummingbirds publicize their superiority with exciting aerial exhibitions.