Given the right plants, hummingbirds will frequent your yard, zooming around, beating their wings at 70 to 80 times or more per second. Hummingbirds need to eat about half their body weight daily in nectar and insects. As these tiny birds feed on nectar plants they also pollinate the blossoms. By planting a succession of nectar flowers, shrubs and trees that will bloom from spring to fall, you can give hummingbirds a continual source of food through the seasons. Flowering shrubs hummingbirds feed on include azaleas, wild Indian plum, red elderberry, red flowering currant and flowering quince.
Hummingbirds also feed on the nectar of hawthorne, horse chestnut and flowering crabapple trees.
Vines they prefer include twin berry, morning glory, clematis, trumpet creeper, honeysuckle and scarlet runner bean.