I know they are around NC , people have feeders everywhere. but in the 20 some odd years living here i have never seen one in the wild. I was walking from my living room to the kitchen and looked out the back door and low and behold flying around the back porch screen was one.

      it really shocked me when i realize what it was.  Well i looked up the symbolism of animal spirit guides on   SHAMANISM ,WORKING WITH ANIMAL SPIRITS , i really like their site you can find it here      http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/4076/indexlist.html
  

this is what they had to say about the hummingbird

Hummingbirds's Wisdom Includes:

Ability to heal by using light as a laser from mouth

Endurance over long journeys

Ability to fly into small places to heal

Joy

Happiness

Love

Now to figure out just what this small creature was trying to speak to me about