hi. I was wondering if you has seeds of Asclepias Variegata for SASE, trade, or if you could send me some. E-mail me please. Click on my name above (blue) and click send me an e-mail. Thanks, Danny

Wow love the videos!!!! How lucky you are to have so many at a time. Hopefully I will have more this year we think that they are nesting in the trees and honeysuckle on edge of our yard. In 2005 we only had a couple here found them by mistake. We were getting ready for our back yard wedding. The men were taking a break I saw a hummer fly to an orange cord it was wanting food. Two hours later that poor baby had a feeder to go to. They thank us by being at the feeder was we were married 3 feet away from us. Since there has been more and more very year I feel so blessed by them every year.

The Hummzinger website that christy gave above (Nottawa Wild Bird Supply) is selling the mini for only $10.17...a real steal for such a high-quality feeder. I think it's really worth it to avoid things like ants, bees, and wasps in the feeders, spillage of sugar water, and cleaning nooks and crannies of mildew/mold that you can get from other brands. My advice is to just go ahead and buy two or three right now to save on shipping--there's probably no doubt that you will eventually want more than one anyway! The Hummzinger has polycarbonate plastic instead of glass--actually easier to clean, and unbreakable. I leave my feeders up in the Fall until the hummers leave--I had one stick around until almost Thanksgiving this year. I've read some even overwinter if they have a reliable food source, although I haven't been so lucky yet. Don't worry--they won't freeze to death! One last note: when christy posted that website for Nottawa last night, the price was so good I purchased two more Hummzingers (I have problems with territorial males). I just got an email saying they'd already shipped. What a cool little company!

In my front yard I have 9 feeders spread out over my yard and there is plenty of domination, but in my back yard I have just one large feeder, but last night for some reason they were swarming that feeder and they tried to be territorial but there was just too many of them as evident on my photos on ctnchpr 's post of the census this morning. So the secret seems to be in the quantity , once you are able to accumulate enough birds they just give up and feed. Sorry for the bad pics I posted there, but you can see what Im saying.