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Plus it’ll be yet another thing to cross off your shopping list. The hummers, your wallet, and the environment will all thank you. So if you enjoy watching the acrobatics of these beautiful birds, give this homemade food a try. Country Living Magazine suggests such flowers as Trumpet Vine, Honeysuckle, Salvia and Petunias.

Planting hummingbird-friendly flowers in your yard and garden will offer them supplemental feeding as well.To keep territorial hummingbirds from fighting over the sugar water, hang several feeders spaced apart so there will be food for all.Hang your feeder close to a window so you can watch & enjoy them.

Just granulated sugar and water is recommended.

Don’t use honey or any other kinds of sugar when making your sugar water.

Don’t add any coloring to the mixture.

Otherwise the summer’s heat can spoil the mixture and cause the hummingbirds to get sick.

Be sure to refresh the sugar water solution every couple of days.

Hummingbird Feeding Notes:īut when feeding hummingbirds, there are some things to do, and a few things NOT to do. They love this nectar and there’s no shortage of these little guys at our feeders at all times of the day. So mission accomplished without adding harmful colorants! Hummingbirds Love Our Homemade Nectar That’s the part that will attract the hummingbird, not the color of the nectar. Most every hummingbird feeder I’ve ever seen has a brightly colored flower-shaped feeding tube. Well when you think about it, the plant itself doesn’t attract the hummingbird, only the small brightly-colored flower they feed upon. How are you going to attract them if the nectar isn’t red? I’ve always read that coloring of the nectar is not necessary and even not recommended.īut wait a minute? Hummingbirds are supposed to be attracted to the color red. Then I stir in the sugar until it’s completely dissolved.įinally I’ll add the rest of the water and stir to mix it all together and cool it a bit. So I heat that small amount of water in a microwaveable-safe container until it’s almost boiling.

Um hummm… this noggin’s not just a hat rack my friend! 😀 Plus it also means I can cool the nectar quickly for the feeder with the room temperature portion of water. This heating shortcut accomplishes two things: First I don’t have to heat the water as long since it’s only a fraction of the final volume. That way after the sugar is dissolved I can dump the room-temp portion into the hot mixture to cool it faster.

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To make remembering the recipe & measuring easy I always use 1/4 cup granulated sugar to a full cup of water.Īnd I even have a shortcut when making my hummingbird food! I don’t heat the entire cup of water, just enough necessary to dissolve the sugar. The recipe I use has a ratio of 1 part granulated sugar to 4 parts water. It costs a fraction of the cost of buying the commercial stuff.Īnd it’s so easy with only TWO INGREDIENTS: Sugar & Water! Sugar / Water Ratio Well, I use the same homemade hummingbird feed recommended by Texas A&M University. Hummingbird Food – Only 2 Simple Ingredients!īut since I don’t want to buy hummingbird nectar, what’s an enterprising country girl to do? We enjoy watching the constant acrobatics from these little guys.īut they stay hungry and they eat a lot! It doesn’t take them long at all to drain the nectar from the feeder time and time again. Our feeder is on a shepherd’s hook right outside our large windows. (did I ever mention how hard I’m trying to eliminate extraneous plastic from our home?)īut I do so enjoy the hummingbirds that come to this beautiful feeder first thing every morning. But I hated that it involved a plastic package to contain it. But apparently putting out a feeder brought them out from all corners of our property! Buying Hummingbird Nectarīack in “the day” I just bought the packages of dry powdered * Hummingbird Nectar for my feeders. When we first moved to the Homestead we didn’t see any hummingbirds. Like most folks, RancherMan & I enjoy watching them. So it’s time now for us to put out those hummingbird feeders. Here in NE Texas, hummingbirds usually arrive at our feeders in mid to late March and stay until September. If you click and buy something I could receive a tiny commission.) But links preceded with * are affiliate links. ( Note: Some links in this post will take you to other related articles for further information. Photo courtesy of Harrison Haines & Pexels