![]() Small batch: 1/4 cup sugar: 1 cup water.Tiny batch: 1/8 cup sugar: 1/2 cup water.2 Boil Sugar and WaterĪdd 1-part sugar and 4-parts water to saucepan and bring to a boil. Have hummingbird feeders clean and ready. Is tap water safe for hummingbirds? It depends on your water quality.īoiling is recommended to help reduce the chance of any contaminants in the water and to dissolve the sugar.Īvoid using softened water. These items can cause a range of problems including bird illness, rapid bacteria and fungi growth, and the potential spread of disease. Organic, natural, and raw sugars (can be too high in iron).White granulated sugar (the same kind you use for baking).Hang the bottle from the knotted end of the twine upside down. You have to be careful because if you crimp it, it will drip.įill the bottle with sugar water or hummingbird food and carefully push the cork into the bottle. Adding Cork & Food:Ĭarefully push the bendy end of the straw into the hole in the cork. Just be sure you keep it even, so when it is hanging it is not lopsided. Then pull all four strings evenly about five inches from the bottle and tie them in a knot. When you get to the bottle base of the bottle, lay it on its side. Keep doing this, switching sides of the bottle so that it makes a netting down the bottle. Then turn it around and do the same thing on the other side. Now grab one string from each side and tie them so they join on a side where there is no knot. Then tie them in a knot on each side of the bottle just as the neck meets the rest of the bottle. Put the bottle in the center of those pieces with one string on each side. You should have a cute little flower.Ĭarefully pinch the end of the flower and insert it into the long end of the straw.īefore using the feeder for the first time, it is a good idea to run some water through the straw and cork just be sure all little pieces of debris are gone.Ĭut two pieces of twine that are both about 60 inches long. Now slightly pinch the end of the smaller piece and insert it into the flanged end of the larger piece. Next, cut another piece of the bright straw so it is about half the size of the last one. Then fold those cuts out so it starts to kinda look like a flower. Then using the scissors make cuts in the end about halfway down. Next, snip about an inch and a half pice of the bright colored straw. It is very important to only make the hole to the size of the straw. Hold the drill running in the cork pushing it in and out to make sure it is clear. After I drilled all the way through I backed it out then drilled again. ![]() ![]() Start by drilling a hole in the middle of the cork. (2) 60-inch pieces of String (used butchers twine). ![]()
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