How to Make Hummingbird Food

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by Betty Maxwell0 views·Updated Oct 5, 2020
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  1. okay. Today I want to talk to you about how
  2. to make hummingbird food.
  3. This is a big thing for our family.
  4. My husband and my three Children all love toe watch
  5. the hummingbirds.
  6. We come from a big city, the city of Columbus.
  7. So the first step will be to gather your materials.
  8. But the thing I want to talk to you about
  9. now is what the point is coming from Columbus.
  10. We did have some wildlife around and we immediately noticed
  11. hummingbirds. My husband, his father kept a garden with flowers
  12. and he loved the hummingbirds.
  13. And so he grew flowers that he knew would attract
  14. them as much as possible.
  15. And he also fed them in feeders so that they
  16. would continue to come.
  17. Um, we didn't get to see them as much in
  18. Columbus, but then when we moved to West Virginia, we
  19. knew that with the trees in the forests and the
  20. clean air, that we would be likely to see more
  21. of them.
  22. So we wanted to figure out the best way to
  23. go about putting out feeders so that when we did
  24. attract them with hope, the flowers that we would hopefully
  25. grow and the natural things that were around for them.
  26. We wanted to be prepared, so we noticed that we
  27. would start seeing them.
  28. We noticed that we would start seeing them as early
  29. as March here, and that seemed to be earlier than
  30. what we would see them in Columbus, Which makes sense
  31. because it's a little further north.
  32. So, um, now that I've told you a little bit
  33. about why that we enjoy them, um, you will need
  34. to fill your feeders a medium to large pot, depending
  35. on how much you want to make plain white granulated
  36. sugar water.
  37. It can be tap water because you're going to be
  38. boiling it and colorful feeders because the hummingbirds are attracted
  39. to color as well as sent.
  40. Come on.
  41. So then, for step two, you want to decide how
  42. much you want to make.
  43. The recipe is four parts water to one part granulated
  44. sugar. So, for example, for an eight ounce feeder, you
  45. would use a little over a cup of water to
  46. count for attrition from boiling the water and a quarter
  47. cup of sugar.
  48. Food coloring is not necessary.
  49. Then, for step three, you would make the syrup.
  50. Bring your water to a boil.
  51. Add the sugar, stirring constantly, and this recipe can be
  52. multiplied as needed.
  53. It's just that easy.
  54. And also you wanna let it cool down before you
  55. put it in your peters.
  56. So then your final step feel pretty feeders.
  57. They seem to like the color red, so that's what
  58. we use.
  59. And then place your feeders around your house and yard
  60. and sit back and enjoy watching them because they're like
  61. magic. Thank you for listening.