Somewhere on a long-ago thread I mentioned a friend who hosted lots of hummers. She lined up several feeders along the roofline of her porch so she could watch them from her kitchen window all day long.

Then she strung two clotheslines close to the feeders; sometimes there were six hummers at a time perched and resting. When she hung the lines I didn't think it would work- until then I had never seen any hummer just sitting around.

Hummingbirds, in actuality, are feisty little critters; they defend their territory fiercely. I've never seen any of them succeed in keeping a territory to themselves, of course, but they do keep trying. At times one feels like breaking up the fights, yelling Can't we all just get along?