5 Expert Tips for Attracting Hummingbirds to your Backyard

Hummingbirds are adorable, energetic birds that you can attract to your yard. Here are 5 expert tips to try, if you want to help bring in these beautiful animals.

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[Salmiyaguy]

beautiful white crowned sparrow as well.

[prescotthenry]

To reduce the black fungus. After washing feeder rinse with plain white vinegar. Then rinse off the vinegar.

[Curious-Lass]

Great video! I have hummingbird feeders in my yard along with many plants hummingbirds love, planted in various colored pots around my yard and patio. I have a lot of tall pines and oak trees as well as a few fruit trees that they fly into to eat fruit flies and gnats. I also have a couple of small fountains that drizzle water that they bathe in every day! I agree! Brightly colored tubular shaped flowers, hummingbird feeders, and shallow fountains along with trees for them to perch in will bring loads of hummingbirds to your yard!🌺🪴🌸🌿⛲️🌳 ❤

[thetraveler]

Looking forward to warmer weather and our Hummingbirds here in Illinois. We use a feeder in the backyard. Thanks Guys!

[LouisaLee]

I saw a Ruby Throated Hummingbird feed off of some Hosta flowers last year in my yard. And Bee Balm too!

[jolenebauser]

I get Ruby throated hummingbirds every year. Last year I had a new one that I didn’t recognize. It was a cream color and had some black on the back and on the head. They were little meanies!!

[malolm]

Im praying that a ruby throated comes to one of my flowers for the birding challenge in April, Thanks for the tips guys! Great Upload!

[Curt_Randall]

I have an arbor with honeysuckle vines which started blooming like crazy in recent weeks. I have seen a couple hummingbirds feeding from it this week. They are not so commonly seen in my neighborhood in central Ohio, so I was highly amused to see them.

[zanecothran]

Number#6 Tie a few foot long strips of Pink florescent surveying tape/ribbon( from your local hardware store)from some trees limbs. Birds have keen sence of sight and that will help catch their eye as they are passing from a distance and prompt them to investigate, attract them to your yard and help find your feeder.

[jmarylastone]

can bees/wasps/ants and hummingbirds "get along"?? - would love to see you do a video on it - sometimes it scares me when I see a lot of bees/wasps/ants around and sometimes inside my hummingbird feeders

[MrTmiket]

Thanks for sharing another wonderful video like always 👍🐦

[kevinreichenbach]

planted a trumpter vine last year. Hoping to have flowers and photos to pass along this summer.

[BeautyBeatdown]

Thanks for all the tips! Still trying to get them to my yard XD

[BackyardBertha]

Excellent video. Thank you for sharing your expert tips for attracting these gems of the wild! Have your hummers started to migrate? We are missing their little voices...

[jeffharper]

I work at a small stone quarry and sometimes when we are down I spray the front end loader down and sometimes a hummingbird will fly through the mist and drink from the spray😊

[msdsez]

I've probably mentioned this before but if you can overcome the fear of a bumble bee looking for nectar and hold still enough, they'll lick the wax out of your ears. It's been since the seventies since I allowed that personally but remember that it tickles.

[sueguidry]

When to put humming bird feeder out in the South (Louisiana)

[AlexanderMcArthy]

Hi, how do we attract them to our front yard?

[jeannepeacock]

It’s mid June in Cleveland and I can’t get any hummingbirds 🥴

[Aurabora]

I thought that sugar was a poor substitute for flowers, and that the birds are healthier with nectar.