Homemade Hummingbird Food
I made my own hummingbird food this weekend. The hummingbirds just love my homemade juice. They are drinking it up so fast I can’t believe it. In the past I had the red granulated mix that you buy from the store, but this week I ran out. So I tried my own homemade brew for the birds. I used the 4 to 1 mix which is 4 cups water to 1 cup sugar. I did not use food coloring and the birds don’t seem to care at all. They are still attracted by the red on my feeder and don’t need any artificial coloring.
Just check out these shots of one of my girls enjoying her natural hummingbird food. So if you feed hummingbirds, please consider making your own diy food. It will save you money and the hummingbirds will love your homemade brew!
Tags: hummingbird, hummingbird-food
Jun 12, 2010
Great pictures! Do you have a bird cam? Now I want to get a humming bird feeder. Thanks for the recipe!
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Jun 12, 2010
@Kristy– No I don’t have a bird cam, I just snapped a few photos using my old camera with it zoomed in. Several of the photos were blurry but I did finally get a few good ones.
Jun 14, 2010
These are fantastic, the birds are beautiful. Of course we don’t get humming birds in the UK. I do get a huge variety of birds in my garden and enjoy putting out different foods to see what I can attract. Unfortunately, I also get wood pigeons who are as fat as turkeys!
Jun 14, 2010
Stunning picture, and great recipe!!!
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Jun 14, 2010
These pictures are incredible!
Jun 22, 2010
That’s fantastic! I’ve been meaning to mix up my own nectar, but couldn’t remember the correct proportions I had seen in a You Tube video on humming birds. I’m going to go mix up a batch asap for my lovely little feathered friends. Thanks!
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Jun 29, 2010
Love your hummingbird pictures, they are so hard to capture on camera! And yes, my hummingbirds love my homemade stuff alot better than the store bought, too. My mom will only buy the stuff in stores, but then complains that she doesn’t see that many birds at her feeder. I have two feeders and can’t keep them full, and we have lots of hummingbirds to watch! It’s so easy to make, I can’t see why bother buying it.
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Sep 07, 2010
Yes, you will get many hummingbirds with this mix. However, there’s no nutrients in this mix and the birds won’t be as healthy as they need to be to reproduce and flourish…try mixing with ‘store bought’ mixes so they will get all the nutrients they need to produce healthy babies…I have also found that salt softened water is not good for them, use bottled or unsoftened water. Happy bird watching!
Apr 03, 2011
Note:
If you boil the water it will eliminate chlorine and fluoride that is not healthy for the birds. Also I have read/researched that most hummingbirds gets their nutrients from the bugs that they eat.
Enjoy!
Apr 03, 2011
@Ashley:
Thank you for your comment. I am on a well so we don’t have chlorine or fluoride in our water but this is good to know for people on public water systems. I am looking forward to the hummingbirds coming back now that spring is here. I still have some snow so it might be a bit for them to arrive here. I think they say in May they should be back here in the mountains.
Apr 04, 2011
@Cindy:
I hope my tid-bits help. I didnt get any hummingbirds last year so I am hoping with this recipe I will get at least a few. I live in a small city, so we will see.
*Enjoy