It's that time of the year when I get the most hummingbirds at my feeder. It's hot, and the fields are brown, but the little whirring birds make summer fun the whole season long. With their buzzing wings and long beaks, hummingbirds can seem almost like giant mosquitoes. Hummingbirds usually beat their wings around 50 or 60 times per second. That's very fast, and it takes a lot of energy. That energy has to come from somewhere. Do you ever drink energy drinks before exercising? It's like that for hummingbirds, except that they need even more energy than you do. Hummingbirds drink more than their weight in nectar every day. Predictably, hummingbird feeders help hummingbirds a lot. The hummingbirds can easily get as much nectar as they need, and they can get it whenever they need it (unless the feeder runs out of nectar). Feeders are also nice for people, because they get to see the hummingbirds that visit it. One thing about hummingbirds is that they try to dominate the