Hummingbird Feeding Solution

[nancycg56]

The hummers are back here in Virginia! I always use this recipe I found on Recipezaar for the solution in our feeders ~ the hummers love it and it's simple to double or triple if you have lots of feeders.

Kim D's Hummingbird Feeding Solution

1/2 cup sugar
2 cups water

Combine sugar and water in a saucepan and bring to a boil. Boil for 2 minutes. Cool completely.

DO NOT add food coloring to water!

Fill your hummingbird feeder and keep remaining feeding solution in the refrigerator up to one week.

Hummingbird Feeding Solution - 27310 - Recipezaar

[Russ]

That's the recipe my wife uses and she makes a large batch at once. She then fills sandwich bags about 1/2 to 3/4 full and freezes them so all she has to do is let them thaw.

[nancycg56]

That's a great idea - freezing the extra!!! Thanks!

[Darlene]

Thank you Nancy, we love hummingbirds here. I just looked at the migration map and looks like I had better get my 3 feeders out, they usually don't come this early. Here's the map for anyone who is interested & you can help the site document their arrival as we often do. Hummingbird Migration Maps