We have fed hummingbirds for years. We have more in the winter than in the summer which is kind of weird. They either don’t migrate or we are a stop on the migration route. Lol.
About 5 years ago I planted honeysuckles and this year added lantanas. Our yard is full of hummingbirds.
Upstate NY here. I grow bee balm, coral bells and honeysuckle. They are quite bold and.will buzz around me when I’m picking raspberries.
I read it here on FR a few years ago that some hummingbirds, who historically migrate great distances up and down North America, are no longer making the migration. Instead they hang out where the food is.
Humans are causing this divergence by feeding them.
It is theorized that if people keep feeding them they will someday split into a unique subspecies.
Perhaps a fatter and lazier subspecies.