Feeding Hummingbirds

**paelthom** · 08-06-2004, 09:17 AM

At the beginning of summer, I was worried because we had so few hummingbirds. We have 2 feeders and I was dumping the sugar water out at the end of each week and putting in fresh because it wasn't getting eaten fast enough. Fast forward to now..... I am having to fill the feeders up twice a day! The birds are all over them. I counted 12 the other day, but it's not an easy count with them dashing around. I use 1 part sugar to 4 parts water and add red food coloring for looks. They are sucking this stuff down faster than I'm going thru my Pepsi. When I go to fill up the feeders, the birds hover close to my face as if to say, hurry up, we want to eat. I love watching them so much that I don't even mind having to fill up the feeders all the time. I sure will miss them when they go away for the winter.

Who else is feeding the hummingbirds?

**mommy2three** · 08-06-2004, 09:53 AM

WE ARE!! we LOVE them too! and yes, we are filling the feeders at least once every 1-2 days! we hang our feeder right outside our sliding door in our diningroom so we watch all day.

when we refill it, they swoop at us too!!

we just LOVE it!!

**mommy2three** · 08-06-2004, 09:54 AM

i forgot to say, the most we counted at our feeder or hovering around it was 9!!!! that is a LOT of "hummers"!!!

**Karla** · 08-06-2004, 03:02 PM

I do as well, I have 2 feeders one on the front side of the house, I watch them from the kitchen sink, the other on the back side of the house...I can watch them from inside or on the patio.....we sure do enjoy there yearly visits.

**Early Bird** · 08-06-2004, 03:07 PM

We usually have 4 or 5 fighting with each other out at the feeder.

I read to not use the food coloring, so our next batch will be clear.

Daily refills too.