Everything You Need to Know to Feed Hummingbirds, Attract to Feeder EASY Hummingbird Nectar Recipe
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2018
- How to Feed Hummingbirds, and How to make Hummingbird Food, Nectar Recipe for healthy birds. PLEASE Share This Q & A Everything you need to know about feeding and bringing hummingbirds to your yard and a Cheap Fast Recipe. SO important, so PLEASE SHARE this Video!
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We have tons of ants on the pole and the feeder. I’ve tried a few things with no luck. Any idea on how to fix this?
Thanks
Best way to STOP ants, check out this video I did this year, thanks ruclips.net/video/WdobcI8uRfQ/видео.html
Attach an ant moat above the feeder. There are plenty of DIY's on RUclips.
@@jorgem.magana4723 the feeder has an ant moat right between the feeder and suction cups attached to the window. That why I'm dumbfounded by them getting into the feeder. I have no clue HOW!
ruclips.net/video/WdobcI8uRfQ/видео.html This works great!
Chip & dip platter has a moat - fill chip part with water & put feeder in the middle dip part - what fits well is the plastic peanut butter feeders Robbie shows in 1 of her videos
I had a humming bird one spring I named Zoom . He was the most friendly social bird I've ever known . He would greet you when you walked outside and then fly all around your head . He flew from one side of the deck to the other . He was more entertaining than any human I've known . If you didn't acknowledge that you see him he would fly right in front of your face and fly up and down until you said something to him . God I sure miss that bird !! Zoom was my best friend from the bird world . 😊
Awww I love the connections we can make from nature! Thanks for sharing that!
I really enjoyed reading about your experience with Zoom. I have a little story that is completely opposite of yours. I have a resident male who I have never named. I don't know why, I just haven't. Anyway he is very territorial. It doesn't matter if other Hummingbirds are male or female, he chases them away all the while chattering very loud at them. I put up two other feeders so the others could eat. I even placed them where he could not see the other feeders from any feeder. But ya know that little dickens took over all three and will not let the others feed in peace! You would think he would wear himself out and drop dead. But he stays. I would guess he has been here for 4 years and he stays year round. I have to make sure that during the winter I bring in his feeder at night to keep it from freezing. I also have to really make sure I have the feeder back out just before dawn the next morning or he just might die. You know they go into a hibernation type sleep at night. And if they can't feed as soon as they can in the morning after it freezes they could very well drop dead. They are amazing little creatures who I find fascinating. And just like yours if I do not have the feeder up in spring and summer he sure lets me know. Before my little one got so much of my attention I did not know about their hibernation habits and other intriguing things about them. Thanks again for sharing!!
I had an IRS agent show up that was like that!
Lol GeeEm! Gail I stayed In Odessa,Tx for a week and saw how territorial Eastern Broadtail males can be- identical story there too, such little rascals!
69 Bama my dad had a hummingbird that came to his Michigan feeder for three years...his name was fluffer, because he was oddly fluffy...he stood out from all the others, thats how he was recognized those three years. Its so cool you had a special hummingbird friend!
"They aren't here right now" as one flies over your head. LOL Thanks for this video...I love seeing hummingbirds in the garden. Such an incredible bird.
Thank you, Robbie
I want to thank you. I had hung hummingbird feeders and used the bottled stuff. Nothing. I almost gave up until I saw your video. I used your recipe and method to prepare and wow! Within the hour - I am not exaggerating. I had a hummingbird feeding and one flying near. I see even more a couple of days later! Thanks again!
Thank you for your video and recipe. I have had a feeder with commercial nectar in it and never seen a hummingbird feed. I cleaned the feeder and put your recipe in it and within 48 hrs I had my first hummingbird ❤️
Okay, than they did not like the other food, PERFECT, Thanks so much, Robbie
They are finicky lol birdies lol
This has been the best Hummingbird class. Thank you so much. I feel blessed just to have two returning all year (Tucson). These two little creatures give me so much pleasure just waking up in the morning to see them feeding and so busy flying about. I think they influence me to sit up, turn my body each and every way and jump up to face the day. Thank you for the idea to add little wires for them to sit on. Will do tomorrow!
They are so adorable and light, that just any wire will do, bread ties, anything. Love that they come back to you each year, thank you so much, Robbie
Here in Kansas, they do not just politely wait their turn. They usually fight over the feeder. Like one male hangs out chasing everyone else off!!! My neighbor and I have doubled our feeders this year and migration is underway and there are so many more birds than I ever remember seeing. We went from 4 last year, with a good amount of birds feeding to 9 feeders this year, I had 1 bird thru the summer, I say one bc we would only spot it occasionally, but now that they are migrating I see them at all the feeders! I just watched your ‘my sugar recipe is the sweetest’ video and that is going to make change out easier. So thank you!! I’m learning a lot from your videos.
So happy the hummingbirds found you. Their movements and behavior has been different this year, I wonder if the Super Bloom events was the reason. Glad if I can be of any help, thank you so much ❤️😊
I now use my hand to remember the ratio. My thumb represents the sugar & my other 4 fingers represent the water! I never have to think about it again & have not forgotten the recipe since viewing your video over a year ago! I now have over 14 hummingbirds coming to feed on a daily basis & I fill the feeders every 3rd day with a small amount of the sugar mix to keep it fresh & clean. Thank You Thank You Thank You! I tried the dollar tree feeders & didn't like the way they are designed, so I found a better brand at Home Depot. Bought 2 & went back for a 3rd so I could do a quick change for my little buddies!
SO cool, and their numbers will grow bigger as those have babies. I use both the dollar hummingbird feeders and others and a NEW one that I will get up on RUclips very soon, thanks, Robbie
Hi Robby you are. An Excellent educator in hummingbirds I truly appreciate it I just noticed I have a hummingbird that comes by thank you💕💕💕💕💕👍👍👍
Robbie, you are such a delight! I watched your videos, upgraded our feeders and added more, started making my own hummingbird nectar, now we have tons of hummingbirds daily! Thank you so much for sharing your brilliance! I appreciate you being such a shining light example of stewardship to such sweet little birds!
I like...people who DO THEIR RESEARCH.
Thanks, Robbie
It works! It works! Your recipe for humming bird food works. The savings will be great Thank you!
You are such a good person to make this video thank you
Thanks for the sugar to water ratio. I was mixing it 1 to 1 and eventually had to put the feeder on the ground because the hummingbirds became obese. Good info!
Haha
Hello,
Started this year, I love watching them outside on patio, your recipe is good they love it.
I love how you are talking about hummingbirds when they're flying around your head!
Love your videos. This is EXACTLY what I came to RUclips for .
It is spring time in Toronto. I want to create a welcoming environment for hummingbirds. It is not common sight to see them here, but I already did this year. It was feeding on the flowers in my garden. I got exited to see it . I don’t have a lot of trees here so I will plant some hibiscus 🌺 to attract them and of course install a feeder.
Thanks so much for the video.
bowls over the feeders shield them from the rain.
Thank you for the information it helps I have never put out anything for hummingbirds now I know how I am very glad you’re telling other people to save the beautiful hummingbirds May God bless you thank you and the hummingbirds thank you too😊💕
You are very special and a great help for these magical little birds
Love it. U r goddess mother of Humming birds.
Thank you, Robbie
Thank you so much Robbie..what a wealth of information!!
👏👏👏Thank you for this information.👏👏👏 I use organic white sugar and a pinch of citric acid, a few drops of edible red, they like the red, when I do not use red the bottle lasts double time, also they like this touch of citric acid. I have a family of hummingbirds and I like to see the little boys eating nectar.🐤🐤🐤I am going to switch to normal white suggar because organic is expensive.
Thanks for the HB info.I love to watch them. Blessing.
Thank you very much...my Hummers showed up Sunday!! right on time...1st Or 2nd week of April.
I LOVE THIS SITE, WHO SAID A BIG BURLY MAN CAN,T LIKE HUMMINGBIRDS, WHEN I,M IN THE YARD UNDER THE TREES, LIKE WATCHING THEM, RIGHT NEXT TO THE BIRD FEEDERS
I wish we had these beautiful birds in Ireland ☘️ really enjoy all your videos it's so interesting! great job ✌🏼
This is a great refresher course. I thought about adding honey to the mix, but now I think not. Thanks for uploading!
You make me smile Robbie. Thanks for another class on Hummingbirds that I can send to a lover of them and another friend who is a skeptic.
Thank you for this great education. I have never set up for humming birds but i am excited... thank you again...
I love your video! I make hummer food in a quart mason jar, which is 4 cups. If you just put in 3 c warm/hot water and one c of sugar, its easy to shake the jar to mix it all up, then add the 4th c water. My problem was orioles! they found the feeder and were gulping down sugar water! I got another kind of feeder with smaller holes and havent seen the birds lately.
Thank you so much for answering all those questions and giving us so much great information ❣️❣️
Thank you for giving us information. I will pass it on.
Hello Robbie, from high desert in Calif.
Thank you for the information.
We have lot of hummingbirds visiting our garden..they're absolutely beautiful!💜💜
Are they humming birds in Philadelphia
Thank you for the hummingbird recipe i put my hummingbird feeder and saw my first hummingbird i was so excited😀
Thanks for all the info!😊
Thank you for this video. I love hummingbirds and enjoy watching them. I don't have the amount of birds that you do, which was awesome to watch while listening to this video. You have a beautiful place. Thanks for the tip on the running water.
I can not thank you enough for educating people!!!🦋💕❤️🥰
Huh? I never even thought to use filtered water! Thanks for opening up my eyes! Dud, ha! Love your channel!! Thank you!!
You are a very smart lady! Thanks for your knowledge.
Love love love! You just inspired me to get a feeder. I hope I can get them to visit me.
Thank you so much. Its so fun watching them visiting
Wow! Best info ever. I thought unrefined sugar would be better. No hummingbirds this year so far. Switched to reg cane sugar today. Looking forward to more hummers!
LOVE THE HUMMIN BIRDS, THANK YOU ROBBIE
My new word for the day: Pied :-) Love your garden, your water fountains and your hummingbirds...
I just found you today. I really enjoy your videos. I hang three hummer feeders. So much fun!
Thank you for all the information. I have subscribed!
Thanx for the mix ratio! I'm trying to figure this out and have just put up 2 feeders for my momma to watch!
Thank you, I'm going to make the wires trick 👌🙏
I Love your humming birds!! Thank you!
Thank you! Robbie
Thanks, Robbie! Not having any feeders in my backyard for quite a few years, I just learned within the last couple of years watching the hummingbirds in my backyard that they go after small gnats and such in spider webs. They were also going after whatever bugs they could find in my Bird Of Paradise, as well as the nectar from the flowers. After finally getting my health back, I'm now putting out hummer feeders again and have made one of the solar powered water fountains for them. Will be making more and getting more feeders again. YAY!!!!!!!!!!! (Notice my meme?)
You are such a nice lady. What a lucky bunch of birds. Congrats!
YOUR TO AWESOME 👏 N THANK YOU FOR THE INFORMATION, IT VERY HELPFUL, AND AM RIGHT ON MY WAY MAKING SOME, SO EXCITED I FOUND YOU💖😘😍
Hi, I'm Lilah, new to your channel and I see hummingbirds behind you waiting for you to move😀thank you for your advice 😊👍.
am a texas birdwatcher love hummingbirds, this inf will help me out bit more thank you.
Thank you for making this video. I bought more feeders yesterday after seeing four hummers in our yard. I also bought the pre-made, red nectar. I found out yesterday that this wasn't good for them, so I thought "There's no way that white, refined sugar can be better, so I'll buy them some Cane sugar. Now after watching your video, I know to give that exact stuff, refined sugar; they won't have to endure those harsh things that they can't digest. Thank you for saving them. =)
Hi Robbie. I am new to RUclips. I created the account specifically because of hummingbirds-lol. Thank you for all the info. I thought of asking a question but you answered them all. Thank you!!!!!
Prayers for you and your family for the quake. Hope all is well.
“..their not here right now.”
Hummingbird: YES I AM!!! I’m listening to the info to make sure I’m doing my life correctly!
And now we know even the little birdies are listening and respect her.
Thank you Robbie... Every video of yours gives me so much information.... Good Day To You... Be Safe
Wonderful video and I subscribed. Must be incredible to live in California. 34 years ago I moved where I now live on a Toronto ravine. Just a couple of weeks ago, I had snow 2 ft deep, but snowplowed on my lawn 8 ft high. It rained, and then fell to minus 20 and it all turned to ice. I was a science teacher 35 years, and after reading Rachel Carson Silent Spring around 1962 when she warned of dangers of herbicides, pesticides/insecticides, I have never used chemicals. I also built a double pond on my sloping backyard, with a 12 foot limestone stream of gentle waterfalls and very shallow pools, bum deep to a robin. One pump with 2 inch hose, spreading in fine hoses throughout the stream. The hummers I believe are ruby throat and have memorized my location, feeders, and pond, and hover over them as though taking pictures to memory, darting quickly above to different parts of the waterfall. I too never use the red dye. I have endless varieties of birds, some passing through to their summer habitat further north. Yellow warblers, goldfinch, dove, bobolink, scarlet tanager, cardinals, Baltimore orioles, slate junko, chickadee, golden eagle, peregrine falcon, horned owl, red wing blackbird, purple finch, blue tits, flicker, downy, robin (some stay all winter) Our blue jay vanished after the West Nile virus 2001, and just showed up last year 2018. No ruby throated hummingbirds yet...Monarda is only 2 inch high. My driveway is lined with shoulder high ostrich ferns, with the fragrant native red monarda peaking throughout, which hummingbirds love. My research says Southern Ontario have hummer feeders out early May, but my monarda is only 2 inches and grows to 4 feet, peaking through the ferns. If they are actually here first week of May, they must be feeding on insects. I only have scilla and dog tooth violets in flower and yellow spirea and magnolia. My rhododendron and royal blue scilla and hyacinth are just beginning to open. Nothing else.
Thanks for this informative, entertaining video. Love your presentation and all your flying friends.
I have the same feeder ,I have 6 hummingbird feeders and 5 bird feeders!!😙😅😄I love your videos so much!!!
Thank you! Robbie
Your video is so helpful. I hope it helps ticket so many people excited take it out there in their Gardens and feed these little guys. Last Christmas it was so cold our hummingbird feeder froze over. So we had to put Christmas lights around the feeder. To keep it from freezing. And Christmas Eve we still had little Hummers out here :-) Pacific Northwest.
Excellent video with all the right information. I have been feeding Hummers for quite some time with success, using the information you have provided.
Thank you Robbie for this great info. You have answered questions I didn’t know I had.
Great idea! Create fruit fly bin...
Thank you for your research I didn't know they stole from the spider's... hummingbirds are my favorite birds they are so beautiful...... so thanks again ......🌻🌻
HI Robbie !!!, We live in Scottsdale and during the summer months (110*) we have noticed when we change our feeders there is black mold inside the feeders, we NOW change the feeders every other day and we only fill them half way which has resolved the issue... We just got our water pump and look forward to making A solar fountain. Thank you Robbie, My wife and I love your videos.
That mold is common, most likely brought in my the hummingbirds feeder, do what you are doing, less food and clean out every other day, Thanks!
Thank you so much for this
informative video... I learned a lot!!!
Finally after 21 years I can have a
Hummingbird feeder... In the mountains
of New Mexico we tried to have them... but
it attracted the BEARS too!!!
Thank you. I'm going to add little wire perches for them. I have only seen one at a time three different times this year.
Great Video and advice. Thanks for sharing.
Is it ok to put a hummingbird feeder on my window?
I get hummers all day everyday with this recipe
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Great video! I wish you could have shown us more about the "seat" you made for your Hummers. Would love to add those to my feeders. Thank you for the video!!!
Thank you for sharing the research on humming birds It's invaluable. Thank you for sharing! Len
I’m so jealous of your yard with all the hummingbirds! And watching them play in the fountains! I had so many hummingbirds where I used to live. More and more came every year. Well we moved across town and now I might see 3 at the most every summer. It makes me so sad because I miss all my hummingbirds so much and wish I could have them like that where I live now.
I have a copper feeder with the TINIEST bit of red(fake flowers where they drink out of) and I’ve never had trouble with them finding mine. 🙂
Just found your video and love it. I been a birds breeder for while and would love to have some hummingbird around. Thanks for your video
I love your vids i got two feeders enjoying learning from you and watching them buzz around 😊😊
Hey Robby! I love all your hummingbird videos and due to you I’ve attracted an unreal amount. I was wondering if you could do a tour of your different types and styles of feeders. Would love to know why you love some over others. Also which ones attract more and less and for what reason. Thanks so much I hope to see more videos from you. You’re awesome!!!!!!!!
That is a very good idea, as I have had some that WILL NOT attract them. Thanks, Robbie
I did exactly that and they still ignore it........ that’s why I bought the hummingbird vine and other attracting plants! I still love what your doing and love watching your hummers!
You can not get hummingbirds to come to a feeder? But plants are perfect too! Thanks, Robbie
Amazing little creatures :) Thank you Robbie!!
Thank you, Robbie
Hummingbirds like trumpet vines. The vines get beautiful trumpet shaped flowers that are bright coral, but are called scarlet trumpet. I had some many years ago that I found in the woods and transplanted them near our house. You can plant them near a fence or near a dead tree and they will twine around it and become a source of privacy, as well as attracting the birds.
The best presentation right here. And thank you.
Beautiful beautiful beautiful thank you for sharing your knowledge 🌷
Thank you for your wonderful tutorial!
Thank you hummingbird lady👍
Excellent video, very informative. Can't wait to start making nectar.
Robbie, thank you for this. I never knew most of this and I think it is so helpful to learn new things and to be sure we are treating our feathered friends correctly. Thank you for sharing about them eating insects. I did not know this and considering how many gnats we have and mosquitos, I am going to consider adding some humming bird feeders into my yard. Have a lovely, lovely weekend! Catherine
Thank you SO much, Robbie
Thank you for your wonderful information. Have a beautiful day.
Thank you so much, Robbie
Thanks for the informative video, they are wonderful birds, I didn't know simple white sugar and water, thank you. I love your video.
Yes, simple is the best for them, check out my new hummingbird video, it is fun, THANKS, Robbie ruclips.net/video/VlyrTyboD0E/видео.html
I was just going to mention my new feeder doesn’t have perches. I’m off to make some. Great idea! First I’m watching the hummer bath video! I have a bird bath but they don’t use that as far as I’ve ever seen.
Very helpful education. Thanks
Love you for what you do.
Mother Nature says thank you!
Thank you, Robbie
I love hummingbirds there one of my favorite birds, I have one nesting in my back yard right now, I'm going to buy some feeders.
My daughter is very interested in hummingbirds, so thanks for this video. I have two other daughters who already have feeders and I am going to get some too, as well as for my other daughter, so we will have a Hummingbird Club going soon. lol
Very helpful info. I noticed for first time this year - 2019, that the hummer food I made with Domino brand white sugar seemed a little cloudy. Also it was more finely pulverized than usual. So I made my 4 - 1 water/sugar mix with another brand that has
more normal size looking grains of sugar... and behold! it looks clearer. Just being super careful in case anything was mixed in with the Domino sugar. I love our hummers to much to feed them something bad!
I only use Domino white granulated sugar for my feeders. Your water is not hot enough. I microwave my 4 cups for 5 minutes in a 1100 watt unit, add the sugar and stir to crystal clear, Hummers love it!
Awesome video, your place looks amazing, thanks for the advice.
This is a wonderful video and so informative! I learned a lot from you today and I have been feeding the hummingbirds for over 15 yrs. I live in Ohio and my hummers left a week ago although I still have my feeders up for stragglers. I will take mine down tomorrow. This year I have had to take mine down at night because of raccoons at night, but I wait until it is pitch black out to take them in and then put them back up at 6 am. A real pain, but the raccoons drag off the feeders. I put clean food out every other day because my feeders don't get drained every day like yours. It is important not to let food ferment in the heat that is not eaten. I never use colored water, but put a red fake flower on the feeder to attract them if I move the feeder. I know I have some of my same hummers every year because they know exactly where to go to find the feeders. I also have my feeders close to blooming flowers. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and I love them too! Great job with your presentation!
I like creating a perch for them, great idea! great video, Thanks
One year my daughter did a study of our hummingbirds for her school science project. The concept was the amount of sugar in the nectar. When made weaker than this ratio, the hummingbirds would try each hole of the feeder repeatedly as though it was empty; when made too strong, they would quickly taste it and just fly away. Bottom line, this is the perfect formula!