Do you feed hummingbirds?

We mix 1/4 cup sugar with 1 cup water. Water has been boiled. Put in feeders. During the very hot weater we change it every other day.

We have also planted several types of flowers that the hummers like.
Butterflies also like the same flowers so both visit our yard.

This is what we do now. Flowers for the bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds.

Less messy and no ant issues.

I fucking hate birds...😂 Especially the ones that live in my house. 🙄

I do a combination about the same as you. I have had summers where I found it hard to keep up with my hummingbirds. I had five feeders spread out around my yard and had hanging baskets with flowers that attract birds. They fight and chase each other away. It’s ridiculous. I used to film videos of my feeders because I might have a dozen birds buzzing around one. It was crazy, but a lot of fun. We used to refer to it as our hummingbird situation. People would come over to sit on my deck and check out my feeders. Then I had another summer where I thought maybe my California lake neighbors had stolen my birds. They put up feeders and I wasn’t getting any. It turned out they weren’t either. Not sure where they were.

I own all the birds on the lake.

Yes and the bluebirds and woodpeckers and nuthatches and wrens and titmouses and cardinals and squirrels and chipmunks and thrashers and warblers and finches and even the deer get in on the action.

Sometimes snakes! And possums and raccoons and even the occasional box turtle pass through. Cats, foxes, coyotes, and I'm pretty sure a bear came through once. In the suburbs!

It's pretty lively out there.

My youngest dd is afraid of birds and moths. Birds always seem to swarm her. It’s weird. She doesn’t mind hummingbirds though.

I love hummingbirds.  Ours do not typically arrive back until around Mother’s Day weekend.  And they are hungry when they get here.  😄. Can’t wait to see them.

OMG, BTDT! When I was a kid my mom wouldn’t let us get a real pet for years. Eventually she compromised and let us get a couple zebra finches after my older sister had some and liked them. NEVER!AGAIN!   For such tiny little birds they were SO freaking loud and made noise all the time. And messy! OMG, messy. They scattered their seed and dried poop all over the place out of their cage. And the boy was a huge bully too. He picked on the girl all the time and eventually literally humped her to death.   After that happened we got rid of him and said never again. For supposedly being low maintenance pets, they really weren’t.

But as for hummingbirds, we love them and have a regular group that comes in the spring to live at the lake cabin. We have two feeders now and gave our neighbor one of our old ones after hers fell out of the tree it was in and broke. I’ve read that early in the spring they need more fuel after a long migration, so the sugar to water ratio should be increased so we do that, I always have to look it up but I think it’s 1 to 3 instead of 1 to 4 sugar to water. Once they start nesting and laying eggs, they need more protein. 

We also feed the orioles and woodpeckers with jelly and suet cakes. We call them our customers because they come to eat at our diner, LOL.