bellarosa-- I dont know your situation but I started with feeders only and had hummers, but now I have a lot of hummer attracting plants and plenty of hummers. But with feeders only you must keep the feeders fresh and maybe an increased dose of plain sugarwater 1:3 sugar to water. Change the nectar every 2 days regardess till they start coming. Right now is the best time because migration is coming very soon, good luck.

Maybe she took off to go to one of Ryans games! KAT------get back here! Donna (^_^)

Thanks for the great educational pics Sherry. Lunas are just so beautiful. I'm always amazed where you spot these. I've seen more of them on urban concrete buildings than in wooded areas. Maybe they like the heat from the concrete?

The bird population in my neighborhood has crashed. At the start of this winter season, I had birds at my feeder. There were fewer than last year, but there some birds. Here in the neighborhood, that can be a wide variation in the number seen on a given day. For the past 2 weeks, I have seen hardly any birds anywhere in the neighborhood. I'm seeing about 3 birds a day. Of course, I am not looking at the feeder all the time, but for the times I do look, I see only 2 to 3 birds per day when in past years, there were times when crowds of birds were at the feeder. We had a pair of resident cardinals. Those always came as darkness fell to tank up for the night. They fed later than other birds. I have not seen a cardinal for the past 3 weeks. The blue Jay that frequented the feeder 3 months ago has disappeared. I have not seen any juncos for 3 weeks. Those are ground feeders and they arrive when other birds toss seed out of the feeder. They might be avoiding because the ground is bare of seed for them. They will use the feeder, but much prefer the ground. Not long ago, we had plenty of house finches; Those are gone. We did have a flock of mourning dove that visited each day. The flock was about 10 in number. I saw one yesterday and none today. There is a roaming flock of wild turkeys that pass through the backyard once per day. Those came today. I filled the bird feeder a week ago an not much has been taken. Its as though the birds have been poisoned or diseased. The population has crashed at my place. Some reduction can be attributed to loss of habitat from building new subdivisions. My town have very little open land left compared to 10 yrs ago.