Homemade Hummingbird Nectar Recipe

Homemade Hummingbird Nectar Recipe

Who doesn’t love to watch birds retreating for the day in groups or singular fashion, especially if you are relaxing on your portico and enjoying nature? Now it’s a real delight to watch tiny humming birds retiring for the night.

You may even wish they might stop at your place, and that is really possible if you can place feeders on all four corners of your garden. As red color attracts them, it is better to keep red colored feeders in strategically located areas where that might settle down. By placing more feeders, you may aim at reducing fights amongst them for claiming of territories. 

Following are some instructions for a delightful nectar recipe, which may attract these tiny wingers: 

•    White Sugar-Essentially white cane sugar, avoiding beet sugar as cane is beneficial for giving instant energy boost for these tiny flyers. Sugar is packed with carbohydrates and can help them maintain their highly metabolic constitution. You may wish for the same body constitution for humans as well.
 
•    Water: Humming birds are used to natural sources, so providing them with distilled or mineral packaged water is not the correct method. Natural water sources like dewdrops, rainwater, man-made birdbaths are best.

But you may also provide them with well water, which is natural and hard in nature, and hummers will get the benefits of drinking pure water with rich minerals.
 
•    City Dwellers: Sadly city dwellers cannot afford to bring well water; therefore boiled water is more preferable. Nectar should be clear and odor free as hummers do go after scented nectarines. And do not include any red color, which may lead to their ill health and other digestive problems.

They may even lead to bill tumors and liver damage. Even though the hummers are genetically programmed to feel attracted towards red color, it doesn’t mean you should end up buying some ready red-colored dyed mixes from the market to attract them, if the feeder is red in color, it is quite enough to attract the humming birds.
 
•    Round Up: One part of cane sugar, 4 parts of chlorine free water. Add 1/4th cup sugar to 1 cup of water and cool them in a fridge. Fill about 1/3rd of the feeder and keep changing the sweet mixture every few days.

Also keep the feeder clean and dirt-free, possibly with hot water and a liquid soap to prevent bacterial infection. Wash the feeder thoroughly before filling it with the watery syrup.
 
So the next time you try to prepare a nectarine solution for your favorite hummers, be sue to follow the above-mentioned guidelines if you want them to be healthy and visit you every year.