Recipe for Hummingbird Food

Who said sugar is bad for you? Hummingbirds would disagree! These small, high-energy birds fly from flower to flower in search of nectar. You can use a bird 's-eye view of them by adding a hummingbird feeder near a window in your house.

Select a hummingbird feeder carefully. Make sure that investors choose:

- About sufficient capacity for the number of hummingbirds in your area. A court has limited the capacity of investors, but may be sufficient if you are a small number ofYou hummingbirds visited.

- Is made of heavy glass and sturdy plastic. You want it robustness with the "drop-test-test" ... it can survive a 5-foot drop to the grass?

- Has spare parts. Hummingbird feeders are constantly exposed to the weather, and parts brittle as they age. When this happens, the pieces must be replaced or the entire drawer.

- Is easy to take apart for cleaning. Hummingbird feeder should be cleanedoften. This means every other day during the hot summer days and at least every 5 days at other times of the year. ) Ideally, cleaning involves soaking all the feeder parts in a mild bleach solution (10 parts hot water to 1 part chlorine bleach. Be sure to rinse it thoroughly before filling again.

Once you've made your selection, you are ready, the sugar water that the hummingbird food choices to make. It is very simple: add 1 / 4 cup granulated sugar, brown sugar to each cupboiling water.

You need to boil water (or microwave oven) and then add the sugar and stir until it is resolved. Boiling helps dissolve the sugar and kills things that can make the sugar water to spoil faster. It needs to cool down before using it in your hummingbird feeder! The sugar water can remain in the refrigerator for 2 weeks. However, rather spoils quickly outside in the hummingbird feeders. For this reason it is important that you (replace it and clean the multipurpose feeder) every 2 daysin warm weather, and at least every 5 days the rest of the year. You can usually tell if you have waited too long and the sugar will pamper you, it begins to cloud.

Why do you usually a red liquid in hummingbird feeder? Some people want a touch of food coloring to the sugar water to add. It is not necessary to do so and is for your pleasure than the hummingbird.

What you do not want is any other form of sugar in the hummingbird food: notMolasses, not brown sugar, no honey, no artificial sugar. This does not offer the same resemblance to granulated sugar cane juice does.

If you decide to put hummingbird feeder in your yard, please keep them full and clean. Hummingbirds find a food source in your garden and nectar, if the natural resources has killed to get used hard to find (eg frost), before the flowers, they will come to thee for food. Think of it as another eaters from now.

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