We spent our first night at the cottage last night. We puttered around planting pole beans, daisies, and morning glories. I thought it was a bit cool to make sugar water for the humming birds but I said, let's give it a try. So we cooked up the syrup, let it cool a bit and hung it out. I'm sure it was less than half an hour before I heard the familiar wizzz of a hummer. I was lying on the deck enjoying a bit of late afternoon sun, and I just smiled to myself.
I can't tell you how much time I've spent over the past 5 years, with my camera pointed at that darn feeder trying to get a perfect picture. Well, today, I did get a picture of this little cutie, but she was on the other side of the feeder. Do you see her wing?
Here's my recipe for hummer nectar.
2 cups boiling water
1/2 cup white sugar
Mix together and let it cool.
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3 comments:
Thanx for sharing the recipe. I too love hummingbirds and have thought to get a few glass feeders to deter the squirrels from nawing them to shreds.
Thanks for posting your recipe. We've barely gotten the winter feeders down! Bees like this sugar syrup also - last summer someone emailed me pictures of honeybees at her hummingbird feeders!
Karen
We have had our feeders out for two weeks. Scott and I were on the deck on May 9 and a hummingbird whizzed by us, and then stopped and came back and hovered for a minute as if to say... I am back... get with it!!!
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