The way my house is built  it is sadly often a hummingbird trap.  The hummers come in to look at cut flowers and then get stuck.

I have two types of hummingbird that regularly get into trouble.  The rufous tailed and the snowy bellied.   And, with plenty of practice, I have developed some strategies.

The rufous tailed are the easiest.  This is the chap in the picture, apologies the photo is a bit out of focus.  They fall for a bamboo stick with a bright green blanket draped on top.  I just stand on a chair with the stick in the air pretending to be a tree. They fall for this every time and hop into the blanket.  With a swoosh of the bamboo I can swing them down and out of the door.   

The snowy bellied are harder.  The stick with the blanket does not work.  With these I have to put a feeder down low hanging on the open French windows.  Eventually, they are so tired they are lured down to eat.