re: Hummingbird Swarm

Perky Pet makes an ant guard that works well too and is pretty cheap at Amazon.



It has either insect killer or repellent inside that the ants would have to cross. They don't.

I've now got 8 hummingbirds on my feeder outside my office. Earlier in the year I would only have a few sightings a day but my house was new and they were learning where the feeders were. Hummingbirds do nest near feeders and the young often return to breed where they were born so over a few years the numbers can go up after you start feeding them. The birds now are mostly migrants from further north, though.