Do humming birds come back?

You are not able to own humming birds or raise them to return to your home. Your best success is to provide a assortment of feeders in the spring and continue to feed the every year These guys will soon learn to return to your home each spring. They are migratory and leave the US to warmer climates during the winter.

Hummingbirds are on their way back to Connecticut. One was sighted in in Connecticut on April 3rd and one was seen in Massachusetts yesterday. The hummers seem to be coming back to us earlier each year. It used to be early May, but now it seems to be sometime in April. So be on the look out for them around any flowering plants that may be in bloom. It is just so fun to watch them dart around searching for plant nectar or a feeder to dine on. So it is also now time to clean your old hummingbird feeder and put it out there in your yard.

The hummingbird species that is found in CT is the Ruby-Throated Hummingbird. They spend the winter in Central America. From March through May, they migrate north. Arrival time on the breeding grounds tends to not occur until food plants are blooming.

It is certainly possible. It would take an amazing job of raising them however. If you have the tower, wild hummers will visit and probably return to it. They are territorial and guard it so it is hard to have very many frequent it in certain times of the year.