Best time to put out hummingbird feeder in Virginia?

Not to sure for your area I put mine out in April

Hummingbirds In Virginia

continuously 4:a million, 4 section water, a million section sugar. right it is the recipe for man made nectar (syrup): Use one section ordinary white cane sugar to 4 elements water. it really isn't any longer had to boil the water. The microorganisms that reason fermentation do not come from the water; they're transported to the feeder on hummingbird expenditures. keep unused syrup contained in the refrigerator for as a lot as 2 weeks. this mixture approximates the superb sucrose content cloth (about 21%) of the plants famous by using North American hummingbirds, without being so sweet it attracts too many insects. Please, do no longer positioned honey, Jell-O, brown sugar, fruit, or red nutrition coloring on your feeder! Honey ferments straight away at the same time as diluted with water and may kill hummingbirds. the outcome of red dye have not been no longer scientifically examined, and it isn't had to colour the water to charm to birds for your feeder. further, there are unverified comments that red dye may reason tumors in hummingbirds; this may or gained't be genuine, yet why take the prospect?

In the Newport News area we would put them out the 1st of April.

here's the map of first sightings for last year.... match those dates, I'd say....

http://www.hummingbirds.net/2008maps.html

here's the newest sightings for 2009

http://www.hummingbirds.net/map.html

note where you can report YOUR first sighting... help us all out!!...