By putting up feeders and planting tempting flowers, you can draw hummingbirds to your garden year after year, says a wildlife biologist in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. They're the smallest bird in Pennsylvania, and they have very iridescent feathers. They're also very tame around people. You can attract them right to your kitchen window.
Hummingbirds are fun to watch for their unusual flight.
They can fly both forwards and backwards and hover in mid-air. You'll often know a hummingbird is near by the humming sound made by their wings. This hovering flight allows hummingbirds to maneuver around flowers like bees. The male flies up and down like a pendulum to attract a female, or defend a feeding site. Although 16 hummingbird species are native to the United States, only the ruby-throated hummingbird is found east of the Mississippi River.