oh goody--good reminder..and good habit to have feeders up by mother's day or maybe even earlier here...in calif. Unfortunately i found a dead hummer in a house near here...flew in one nice spring day when the door was open to air out the house,,and could not get back out in time to get food I guess...sad. bbut its feathers are as electric hot pink as when alive..maybe i will skin it and stuff it...i have done taxidermy on great blue heron..this one would be the other end of the scale!!