airport? Star Trek?? Too funny - but it's worth a try. We have a major squirrel problem around here - the nut next door to me (she is whacked out - worse than me!) plants nut trees and doesn't do a thing with them - so the squirrels bury them all over the place and they chase the birds too. I am so sick of finding them all over - and she won't get rid of the trees - but yet she screams in Polish at the squirrels and throws her cane at them. She hates the wild rabbits too, so her hubbie dug a well in ther backyard years ago and she covers it with an old metal trash can cover - hits the rabbits with her cane and throws them down there. Her husband used to catch the rabbits and eat them - she doesn't cook. BTW - she swears up and down she doesn't have a well in her yard.

Sounds like my Mother in law, who lives with us. She is 93 years old, but we love her anyway. Boy, I wish I had some fresh rabbit, I also like squirrel. CF

They will be attracted to any of the reds, pinks or oranges. Most birds don't see the color blue, however.

That's odd as we've sold blue food color to folks in the desert in Southern California for coloring syrup for hummingbirds.

I thought that there must be a blue flower there that they feed from. Maybe they're not the ruby throated hummingbird.

Yes Mama. On or about the 3rd week of September, the hummingbirds around here flock to our feeders. There could be 3 or 4 around at any time and they chase each other away from the food. It stays this way all day long for about a week and then all quiet until spring. I figure every passing hummingbird is taking in it's meal to get the next 100 miles.