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Anyone make their own hummingbird nectar?

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I've been buying it but it hurts to pay so much for what must be the same mix as coca cola without the cola and red color instead of caramel color. Looking for something someone uses regularrly that they know won't hurt the little fella's.

Matt
 
Matt, I make my own, right now the little buggers are eating about 12 oz. a day.
recipe: 4 oz. white sugar 12 oz water. I don't use any coloring, just clear sugar water. CF
 
I don't do the hummingbird thing - we never see them around here - I do the bird balls -

2 lb. ground suet
2 C. peanut butter
1/3 C. molasses
1/4 C. bacon grease
1 lb. regular oatmeal
1 C. cornmeal
Bird feed with sunflower seeds

Have the butcher grind the suet.

Place suet in a pan and melt over medium heat. Strain into
a large bowl. Add peanut butter, molasses, bacon grease,
oatmeal and corn meal. Add enough seeds until mixture can
be rolled into balls. Roll into two-inch balls and coat with bird
feed while warm. Chill.

Place outside for the birds. If using as a gift, wrap individual
balls in plastic wrap and tie with a ribbon. Attach a label
indicating it is for the birds.

Yields 24 two-inch balls
 
Mama,

Plant some red Bee Balm, or Salvia. Then hang a feeder nearby. The flowers will attact them and are preferred by them but don't last near long enough. Then you'll see them. In late September, as their heading south, you'll be like an airport, with 10 or so at a time feeding to get the energy to get to the winter resorts.

Ants like the feeders too. So you need one with an salad oil resevoir or other method. Try it.

They are around. Just fly too fast for you to see them, much like the old Star Trek episode with the fast people.
 
airport? Star Trek?? Too funny - but it's worth a try. We have a major squirrel problem around here - the nut next door to me (she is whacked out - worse than me!) plants nut trees and doesn't do a thing with them - so the squirrels bury them all over the place and they chase the birds too. I am so sick of finding them all over - and she won't get rid of the trees - but yet she screams in Polish at the squirrels and throws her cane at them. She hates the wild rabbits too, so her hubbie dug a well in ther backyard years ago and she covers it with an old metal trash can cover - hits the rabbits with her cane and throws them down there. Her husband used to catch the rabbits and eat them - she doesn't cook. BTW - she swears up and down she doesn't have a well in her yard.
 
Sounds like my Mother in law, who lives with us. She is 93 years old, but we love her anyway. Boy, I wish I had some fresh rabbit, I also like squirrel. CF
 
SilverSage said:
Most birds don't see the color blue, however.
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That's odd as we've sold blue food color to folks in the desert in Southern California for coloring syrup for hummingbirds.

I thought that there must be a blue flower there that they feed from. Maybe they're not the ruby throated hummingbird.
 
Mama Mangia said:
airport?
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Yes Mama. On or about the 3rd week of September, the hummingbirds around here flock to our feeders. There could be 3 or 4 around at any time and they chase each other away from the food. It stays this way all day long for about a week and then all quiet until spring. I figure every passing hummingbird is taking in it's meal to get the next 100 miles.
 
Hummers are Humming

I think it is because it is so dry and very few flowers. But I enjoy them. They are eating two feeders a day. Thats 24 oz. sugar water. CF:)

Humming, Humming Birds
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Well - FYI - if the 3rd week of September hummingburds will flock here - they will freeze their tushes off! Getting our first frost tonight - dang cold today! Blankets and comforters on the beds and the snuggies are on! LOL
 
(as mama scraped the frost off her windows this morning............and it's colder tonight!)
right now it's got to be about 40 out there - I am freezing
 
ChileFarmer;Boy said:
Around here we don't many rabbits anymore. The Coyotes have just about wiped them out. I'm really thinking about baiting up some "Coyote Trees" and thinning them out a little.
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Same Here

JP, same here. Not many rabbits or quail. We do have coyote of course, I believe they are everywhere.
I think the fire ants are a lot of the ground nesting animal trouble. I am sure the coyotes get there share. Here is a photo of one, caught on my game cam a few weeks ago. He is at my compost pile. Coons to. CF:)

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Mama, we have all kind of varmints visiting at night Bet you do to. Here are the raccoons on the same night. Family of four. CF:)
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