Okay! Maybe this year, since they've found me, I won't be out there by myself! (These are the ruby-throated.) Thank you. I actually do have the feeder in the middle of a huge hummingbird garden, so I think they will like me! Although, this week the recyclers chopped my trumpet vine down to its bottom while struggling to pull out my bin, so now it has to start all over! :(

Hiya masondad! :-) Welcome! Just wanted to add something. I hang my feeders on the overhang of the house, but like you mentioned - they're kinda high to maintain. So, what I did was bought some of those neat ol "S" hooks (that are long) that you can buy at any birding store (or even from Lowes in the flower pot/accessory area). I have about 2 or 3 S hooks linked on each other to bring the level of the feeder down to my level so that I can easily hang it (plus easier to view at eye level). They're attached to one of those round thingies, sorry don't know the name, but it's a round metal with a screw at the end that you can just screw into the wood (the ones that you put hanging potted plants on). Hope you get your feeder up soon and have some visitors. You'll fall in love with them. Keep us posted and good luck! :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hummingbird "They also typically consume more than their own weight in food each day, and to do so they must visit hundreds of flowers daily. At any given moment, they are only hours away from starving." "stores up fat to serve as fuel, thereby augmenting its weight by as much as 40Â50 percent and hence increasing the bird's potential flying time" Rockport has tons of them in September as they migrate from the east to west towards MX for the winter. http://www.rockporthummingbird.com/

I put our feeder out on March 15. First little hummingbird arrived April 3, probably one just passing through. The ones that come stay with us all summer won't arrive until the end of the month or early May and will stay with us until early to mid-October.