Hummingbirds also eat insects and spiders from trees, and insects inside flowers from which they sip necter. Water - Hummingbirds do all or most of their drinking at flowers when they sip necter, but they also need places to bathe. They will use any water available, including drops of water on a leaf or the spray from a sprinkler. It can be helpful to place rocks in your birdbath, so hummingbirds can stand in the water. Provide a wide variety of plants to give the female a choice of nesting material.
Hummingbirds are territorial over necter sources.
Provide some perches from which the bird can survey its territory. Dead tree limbs are good choices. Shrubs Shrub Species of Willow. Seeds are connected to fine filaments which are often used as nesting material. The birds also feed on the necter of willow flowers and eat the insects that the willow flowers attract.