Well right now it might be hard to find the hummingbird to draw into your yard. Ruby-throateds migrate here in the late fall and winter but leave in March for their breeding grounds elsewhere. With that being said, there are pockets of areas that do have them year round so if you want to try, you might try the Bat face Cupheas or perhaps some Black and Blue Salvias that are in the nurseries now. Other salvias might also work like the native Red Salvia or the Coral Nymph. I have salvias in both shade and sun. This is my first year with the Cupheas. I got them to try to raise to have for next winter. Don't know if they will make it or not.

I have lots of Lobelia cardinalis, it self sows here and there in interesting places, and I usually transplant and expand or create another patch. Transplanting L. cardinalis is easy, however I would not try to divide a Cardinal flower as they make a rosette of foliage and my instinct says it should stay intact. However I've never tried it. L. cardinalis has been fairly long lived. If you deadhead and pamper a bit with water and compost, it will successfully make offsets each year. The original 2 pots I bought at the nursery in 2007 are still alive, and also 2008 winter-sown plant and their seedlings. I have been growing Cardinal Climber for 3 years and it has never reseeded, but have successfully collected seed. Last year the deer went to town on the CC and the MGs on my new trellis and so I constructed barriers, which allowed some recovery to the vines and decent showing of blooms. The hummers nectar regularly on CC, but they LOVE cardinal flower. I think it is their very favorite plant in my garden. Here's a pic from last year -

It would be very unlikely to find a nesting hummingbird in the Ft. Myers area but not impossible. It wouldn't be uncommon for you to find one during migration or to have a winter resident if you're lucky enough to live in a an older neighborhood with mature trees and landscaping with tubular flowers. Steve in Valrico

Marilyn, a bear knocking out my kitchen window would make me crazy! Not in the daytime, but won't they get bolder? Deer do. About feeders, my ones on shepherd's hooks in the front yard have been okay at night. However, we have had to bring the deck feeders in at night for about a month because they were raided several times, each time rougher and more aggressively.. The first few times, they were just dry in the morning, and a suet feeder was not touched. Then the;y were dry and one knocked down, suet still left alone. Finally, .they were knocked down and the suet feeder completely eaten out, mud in the birdbath underneath. We thought maybe raccoons. If I thought it was a bear, I would want to buy an elephant gun. I certainly would have to bring them in at dusk because I'd be too afraid to venture out there at night.