My resident hummingbird looks to be a female ruby-throat.  She does not have a ruby throat, however, and is a rather drab light green, with touches of white on her head. 

She readily drinks from the sugar water feeder on my back deck and I hope she supplements this with nectar from flowers blooming around my place.

My sugar water is prepared on a ratio of four parts water to one part cane sugar.  In the wild, flowers produce nectar that varies from twelve percent to almost fifty percent sugar.Â...