I just made some nectar during the week and hung up the hummingbird feeder, and son of a gun, there’s the tiniest, tiniest hummer out there today. A resplendent male! He took 40 sips. Later this week I’m going to buy him a fuschia in a hanging basket.
Yep, got three here (St Louis) so far. I took a bunch of pictures last year. I haven’t started taking any yet this year.
Here’s a few from lst year:
(yes, that’s a hummingbird tongue)
I’m glad they’re back, I’ve been waiting for them. 
I’m buying sugar for nectar tomorrow, but I hope they don’t show up just yet. More snow is expected this week, and cold temps.
I hear that hummingbirds are the bullies of the bird world. That if you don’t fix your feeders just right, you often get one bully hummingbird stopping all his hummingbird buddies from feeding, just 'cause he’s on a power trip 
Roomie put up two small feeders with red stuff in them yesterday.
They’re certainly bold little creatures…I’ve had several encounters where a hummingbird would fly right up to me, stare for a few moments, then zip away.
The hummingbird tongue picture is awesome!
Me love the hummingbird love!
We got flocks of them, they seem to enjoy annoying the cats.
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Basically correct - they are very pugnacious. But charming nonetheless
We got one yesterday in Middle Of Nowhere, Appalachia. :D!
Ours are back too – north central Iowa – as well as some orioles eating grape jelly like crazy – our first time with orioles!
We fed finches for awhile but they make too much of a mess, and the seed is expensive.
ETA: Everyone knows it’s not necessary to color the water – the hummers don’t care.
I’ve had a few sightings at our feeder too.
I just love hummingbirds. Makes me happy to see them feeding.
They hit every one of our hanging/flowering plants on the way to the feeder.
So cute!
They are year round visitors here, we have a feeders in both front and back.
We got ours back about a week ago - good thing we ignored the advice not to bother filling the feeders until June. Interestingly, at the other new feeder, we also saw a goldfinch (male) for the first time ever, and it’s the same old sunflower seeds. I guess they just weren’t into eating off the railing like the usual tit mice-chickadee-nutch hatch-woodpecker-blue jay-cardinal crowd has always been content to.
You know what’s really pitiful? A lil hummingbird, out in the pouring rain, so soaking wet that they’re holding onto the feeder in a death grip so they don’t have to flap their ency wings. Poor guys, we saw two like that yesterday.
Hummingbirds are another thing I miss about New Mexico.
A few have showed up out here. I have a yard full of hummingbird friendly plants for them.
Last year I went up to Sandia Peak with the Audubon Society and there were swarms of them on the feeders–people could actually walk up and put their hands behind the birds’ legs and get a hummingbird to sit on their fingers.
(I’ve also got grosbeaks, which have enormous heads and can eat a seed cake faster than any other bird I’ve ever seen.)
Me too. I lived in Corrales, NM in 1994-95. I stayed in a hostel once in Cuba, NM. They had feeders and flowering plants everywhere. There were many different breeds. I have a photo of myself standing in this terrific courtyard with hummingbirds literally all around me. I walked around with a smile on my face the whole weekend. They are such amazing birds. Their annual migration alone is just mind blowing. Putting my feeder up, I miss them. Here in Oregon we definitely see them, but not like that. NM is a special place.
I’ve also got a trio of rosebreasted grosbeaks loitering in my window feeder, hitting up the sunflower seed all day. Two males - one short n’ chubby, one tall n’ skinny, and one (I think one) female, who looks like a gigantic sparrow. With white eyeliner.
Ooo I don’t have my feeder out yet! I hope I don’t miss them. Last year they were scarce for some reason; I had a lot the year before.
The wife spotted 2 last week, and I saw one yesterday afternoon. We’ve had the feeder up for a month, and just last week started putting out this year’s potted flowers. Hummingbird smorgasbord!
Does caffeine works on birds? Because I could see making nectar with energy water and seeing if they explode like the mosquito in the Tabasco commercial. 
You are a bad, bad man.