Homemade Hummingbird Food

For the last two years that we have had a humming bird feeder we had been buying store bought, red, humming bird food. Well 2 days ago I finally switched to making my own and let me tell you, we went from having two hummingbirds that would randomly show up, dip there beaks in, and leave to having roughly 6, up to 9, birds fighting over our feeder and even getting comfortable enough to land and hang out on our balcony! I filled the feeder two days ago and it is already 1/3 of the way empty!
This recipe is so simple you won't even believe it! Are you ready!?

  • 1/2 cup sugar (white is fine)
  • 2 cups of cold tap water
That's it!
All you'll want to do is mix the sugar into the water, make sure it's dissolved, and add it to your feeder. This makes two cups but to make more simply add 1/4 cup of sugar to every 1 cup of water.

Safety note: Do not use hot tap water as it adds minerals from your pipes to the water that can harm the birds. It also isn't necessary to boil the water or buy distilled water. Cold tap will not harm the birds and the boiling/distilling will just waste your time/money! It also isn't necessary to add red food coloring to the water.

(Photo: Taken by me at our house)

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