Gardening Crafts: How to Make Hummingbird Feeder Food - Home Made Simple

Get more gardening tips from Home Made Simple at http://homemadesimple.com/en-US/Garden/Pages/Home.aspx. Hummingbirds are wonderful and special species of bird, due to their amazing eating and flying habits. Hummingbird's heart rates reach to almost 1,000 beats per minute and their wings flap between 10-80 times per second. With all that energy, its no wonder they require eating more than their weight in food each day. To give back to our sweet friends, make your own nectar for them to feast by following this simple recipe: start with 1 part sugar to 4 parts water. Boil your water to sterilize it, and let cool. Add your 1 part sugar once the water is cooled (this is important, as adding sugar to hot water will cause it to become too syrupy for the birds to digest). Then, fill your hummingbird feeder and hang in a quiet,
low traffic area. You can even keep your solution in the refrigerator for 1-week, if you have any leftover. Within days, you are sure to see a flock of these beauties flurry to sip on your homemade nectar! (another note: some recipes call for red food coloring, but this is not necessary and can even cause issues in the birds digestion. We say: skip it!)

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[BlackbirdSpecOps]

K, so when are you going to show HOW to make a hummingbird feeder? This just tells you how to make food for the feeder

[Mainer1945]

Bad title.



[tagtenor]

Ooops...I mean COOL little birds!

[tagtenor]

@ candyjr1... Great idea using the red bows/silk flowers. As soon as the hummingbirds spot the red and realize there is 'food', they're good to go and will return to the feeder on a regular basis. They're coll little birds! :-D

[jay733]

That's weird, nectar in plants usually have a syrupy consistency to it.

[candyjr1]

@5277407 Hi there! I use 1 part sugar to 4 parts water , put into a coffee cup , and microwave this for 2-3 minutes to kill molds, stir this , let it cool completely. You HAVE to change and clean the feeder every 4 -7 days. DO NOT use red food color. I hang red bows or red silk flowers in my yard to attract them in the first place. They found my feeder within 2 hrs. after I moved to a new house. love them, enjoy *-*

[amy1827]

let me guess ...this vid was sponsored by Cascade. You didn't make a feeder just talked how to make hummingbird food :/

[5277407]

Hi: Thanks for your advice. I've had a hummingbird feeder hanging in my yard since April. No hummingbirds. I'm using the packaged nectar with the red dye. Do you know why I never get hummingbirds? I live in New York City. Thanks

[taz6122]

You might want to change the title!