Just Say No to Abuse Declaring War on Terrorism. They had their first hummingbird of the year on May 5. This morning I had an e-mail from my friend Carol, who lives here in Portland, reporting that she had a Costas hummingbird in her yard this weekend, a very rare sighting for our area. In my own yard, I have hummingbirds coming at regular intervals for sips of nectar from the hummingbird feeder.
Hummers love the color red.
Plant red flowers, preferably with tubular blossoms, like fuchsias and trumpetvine. One birdwatching friend hangs old red t-shirts around his hummingbird feeder, to attract birds flying overhead on migration. My hummingbird feeder has red plastic blossoms which function as the feeder ports. You can also attach red ribbons or artificial flowers to your hummingbird feeder. What you don't want to do, however, is add red food coloring to the nectar in your hummingbird feeder.