Hummingbird Nectar Recipe

 I saw a hummingbird this week! That means it is time to clean up the hummingbird feeders and make some nectar.

Every year I forget the recipe and have to look it up online.

Here is the recipe, in case I am not the only one who forgets.

Hummingbird Nectar Recipe

1 part sugar

4 parts water

Heat all the water or part of the water (enough for the sugar to be dissolved in).

Add the sugar and stir until dissolved.

Let the sugar water cool down to room temperature before filling hummingbird feeders. If you have only heated part of the water now is when you add the rest of the water to the concentrated sugar water.

It is important to use pure white sugar for the hummingbird nectar. Hummingbirds can't have the molasses that is in less refined sugars, like Sugar In The Raw or Zulka.

For more information about feeding hummingbirds you can visit this article on Birds and Blooms website.

Happy bird watching!

Bird Houses

 I know snow can be exciting, but I am gearing up for spring!

The birds have started to herald spring's impending arrival! (I hear them singing in the mornings.)

And soon they will be looking for nesting sites!

I hope that some of the Blue Birds and House Wrens will choose to nest in my bird houses this spring!

Matthew 6:27+26

Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?