@@jorgem.magana4723 the feeder has an ant moat right between the feeder and suction cups attached to the window. That why I'm dumbfounded by them getting into the feeder. I have no clue HOW!
Chip & dip platter has a moat - fill chip part with water & put feeder in the middle dip part - what fits well is the plastic peanut butter feeders Robbie shows in 1 of her videos
I had a humming bird one spring I named Zoom . He was the most friendly social bird I've ever known . He would greet you when you walked outside and then fly all around your head . He flew from one side of the deck to the other . He was more entertaining than any human I've known . If you didn't acknowledge that you see him he would fly right in front of your face and fly up and down until you said something to him . God I sure miss that bird !! Zoom was my best friend from the bird world . 😊
I really enjoyed reading about your experience with Zoom. I have a little story that is completely opposite of yours. I have a resident male who I have never named. I don't know why, I just haven't. Anyway he is very territorial. It doesn't matter if other Hummingbirds are male or female, he chases them away all the while chattering very loud at them. I put up two other feeders so the others could eat. I even placed them where he could not see the other feeders from any feeder. But ya know that little dickens took over all three and will not let the others feed in peace! You would think he would wear himself out and drop dead. But he stays. I would guess he has been here for 4 years and he stays year round. I have to make sure that during the winter I bring in his feeder at night to keep it from freezing. I also have to really make sure I have the feeder back out just before dawn the next morning or he just might die. You know they go into a hibernation type sleep at night. And if they can't feed as soon as they can in the morning after it freezes they could very well drop dead. They are amazing little creatures who I find fascinating. And just like yours if I do not have the feeder up in spring and summer he sure lets me know. Before my little one got so much of my attention I did not know about their hibernation habits and other intriguing things about them. Thanks again for sharing!!
Lol GeeEm! Gail I stayed In Odessa,Tx for a week and saw how territorial Eastern Broadtail males can be- identical story there too, such little rascals!
69 Bama my dad had a hummingbird that came to his Michigan feeder for three years...his name was fluffer, because he was oddly fluffy...he stood out from all the others, thats how he was recognized those three years. Its so cool you had a special hummingbird friend!
"They aren't here right now" as one flies over your head. LOL Thanks for this video...I love seeing hummingbirds in the garden. Such an incredible bird.
I want to thank you. I had hung hummingbird feeders and used the bottled stuff. Nothing. I almost gave up until I saw your video. I used your recipe and method to prepare and wow! Within the hour - I am not exaggerating. I had a hummingbird feeding and one flying near. I see even more a couple of days later! Thanks again!
Thank you for your video and recipe. I have had a feeder with commercial nectar in it and never seen a hummingbird feed. I cleaned the feeder and put your recipe in it and within 48 hrs I had my first hummingbird ❤️
This has been the best Hummingbird class. Thank you so much. I feel blessed just to have two returning all year (Tucson). These two little creatures give me so much pleasure just waking up in the morning to see them feeding and so busy flying about. I think they influence me to sit up, turn my body each and every way and jump up to face the day. Thank you for the idea to add little wires for them to sit on. Will do tomorrow!
Here in Kansas, they do not just politely wait their turn. They usually fight over the feeder. Like one male hangs out chasing everyone else off!!! My neighbor and I have doubled our feeders this year and migration is underway and there are so many more birds than I ever remember seeing. We went from 4 last year, with a good amount of birds feeding to 9 feeders this year, I had 1 bird thru the summer, I say one bc we would only spot it occasionally, but now that they are migrating I see them at all the feeders! I just watched your ‘my sugar recipe is the sweetest’ video and that is going to make change out easier. So thank you!! I’m learning a lot from your videos.
So happy the hummingbirds found you. Their movements and behavior has been different this year, I wonder if the Super Bloom events was the reason. Glad if I can be of any help, thank you so much ❤️😊
Robbie, you are such a delight! I watched your videos, upgraded our feeders and added more, started making my own hummingbird nectar, now we have tons of hummingbirds daily! Thank you so much for sharing your brilliance! I appreciate you being such a shining light example of stewardship to such sweet little birds!
I now use my hand to remember the ratio. My thumb represents the sugar & my other 4 fingers represent the water! I never have to think about it again & have not forgotten the recipe since viewing your video over a year ago! I now have over 14 hummingbirds coming to feed on a daily basis & I fill the feeders every 3rd day with a small amount of the sugar mix to keep it fresh & clean. Thank You Thank You Thank You! I tried the dollar tree feeders & didn't like the way they are designed, so I found a better brand at Home Depot. Bought 2 & went back for a 3rd so I could do a quick change for my little buddies!
SO cool, and their numbers will grow bigger as those have babies. I use both the dollar hummingbird feeders and others and a NEW one that I will get up on RU-vid very soon, thanks, Robbie
Love your videos. This is EXACTLY what I came to RU-vid for . It is spring time in Toronto. I want to create a welcoming environment for hummingbirds. It is not common sight to see them here, but I already did this year. It was feeding on the flowers in my garden. I got exited to see it . I don’t have a lot of trees here so I will plant some hibiscus 🌺 to attract them and of course install a feeder. Thanks so much for the video.
Thank you for the information it helps I have never put out anything for hummingbirds now I know how I am very glad you’re telling other people to save the beautiful hummingbirds May God bless you thank you and the hummingbirds thank you too😊💕
Thanks, Robbie! Not having any feeders in my backyard for quite a few years, I just learned within the last couple of years watching the hummingbirds in my backyard that they go after small gnats and such in spider webs. They were also going after whatever bugs they could find in my Bird Of Paradise, as well as the nectar from the flowers. After finally getting my health back, I'm now putting out hummer feeders again and have made one of the solar powered water fountains for them. Will be making more and getting more feeders again. YAY!!!!!!!!!!! (Notice my meme?)
I love your video! I make hummer food in a quart mason jar, which is 4 cups. If you just put in 3 c warm/hot water and one c of sugar, its easy to shake the jar to mix it all up, then add the 4th c water. My problem was orioles! they found the feeder and were gulping down sugar water! I got another kind of feeder with smaller holes and havent seen the birds lately.
This video was extremely helpful! Thank you for all the research you did before making the video. I trust information a lot more when there has been good research done. Thank you! Happy feeding.
Thanks for the sugar to water ratio. I was mixing it 1 to 1 and eventually had to put the feeder on the ground because the hummingbirds became obese. Good info!
This is a wonderful video and so informative! I learned a lot from you today and I have been feeding the hummingbirds for over 15 yrs. I live in Ohio and my hummers left a week ago although I still have my feeders up for stragglers. I will take mine down tomorrow. This year I have had to take mine down at night because of raccoons at night, but I wait until it is pitch black out to take them in and then put them back up at 6 am. A real pain, but the raccoons drag off the feeders. I put clean food out every other day because my feeders don't get drained every day like yours. It is important not to let food ferment in the heat that is not eaten. I never use colored water, but put a red fake flower on the feeder to attract them if I move the feeder. I know I have some of my same hummers every year because they know exactly where to go to find the feeders. I also have my feeders close to blooming flowers. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and I love them too! Great job with your presentation!
Hello Robbie, from high desert in Calif. Thank you for the information. We have lot of hummingbirds visiting our garden..they're absolutely beautiful!💜💜
👏👏👏Thank you for this information.👏👏👏 I use organic white sugar and a pinch of citric acid, a few drops of edible red, they like the red, when I do not use red the bottle lasts double time, also they like this touch of citric acid. I have a family of hummingbirds and I like to see the little boys eating nectar.🐤🐤🐤I am going to switch to normal white suggar because organic is expensive.
I've been making your hummingbird water and they love it and your right it doesn't need no dye I've got more Hummer's this year than ever thanks Robbie
Thank you so much for this informative video... I learned a lot!!! Finally after 21 years I can have a Hummingbird feeder... In the mountains of New Mexico we tried to have them... but it attracted the BEARS too!!!
Thank you so much Robbie!! I have gotten my white sugar (raw sugar changes into syrup in my desert sun) and now I am watching to see what happens! I have a bossy bird, I have named him Simon Cowell, who chases everyone else away however, I watch your videos and I believe I can do what you are doing! I am just south in Baja and there are fabulous hummers here, I even saw an orange one! Thanks for inspiring me. I trust that Simon will let others come to the feeders in my hummingbird corner! ❤️
Thank You Robbie for answering my question of how long to keep my hummingbird feeders. Should I take the feeders down when it snows. I love your videos. Got excited when I saw 4 hummingbirds at one feeder. Thank You again for your advice.
First, are there ANY flowers around when it is snowing? That can keep some birds around, if everything is white and frozen, than most likely the hummingbirds had moved to lower ground, like the coast of Orange county, or Los Angeles, where lots of people have gardens...BUT if you see birds around than you can keep it up, if none are around, take it down until you see them again, as the weather warms. Here they stay all year round, thanks, Robbie (Meet a man at Homedepot from your area, in December, he was growing tomatoes up against his house, all he did was drape some plastic from the root over the plants and he told me they grow all year for him....he made a micro climate, so fun.
Thank you for making this video. I bought more feeders yesterday after seeing four hummers in our yard. I also bought the pre-made, red nectar. I found out yesterday that this wasn't good for them, so I thought "There's no way that white, refined sugar can be better, so I'll buy them some Cane sugar. Now after watching your video, I know to give that exact stuff, refined sugar; they won't have to endure those harsh things that they can't digest. Thank you for saving them. =)
Wonderful video and I subscribed. Must be incredible to live in California. 34 years ago I moved where I now live on a Toronto ravine. Just a couple of weeks ago, I had snow 2 ft deep, but snowplowed on my lawn 8 ft high. It rained, and then fell to minus 20 and it all turned to ice. I was a science teacher 35 years, and after reading Rachel Carson Silent Spring around 1962 when she warned of dangers of herbicides, pesticides/insecticides, I have never used chemicals. I also built a double pond on my sloping backyard, with a 12 foot limestone stream of gentle waterfalls and very shallow pools, bum deep to a robin. One pump with 2 inch hose, spreading in fine hoses throughout the stream. The hummers I believe are ruby throat and have memorized my location, feeders, and pond, and hover over them as though taking pictures to memory, darting quickly above to different parts of the waterfall. I too never use the red dye. I have endless varieties of birds, some passing through to their summer habitat further north. Yellow warblers, goldfinch, dove, bobolink, scarlet tanager, cardinals, Baltimore orioles, slate junko, chickadee, golden eagle, peregrine falcon, horned owl, red wing blackbird, purple finch, blue tits, flicker, downy, robin (some stay all winter) Our blue jay vanished after the West Nile virus 2001, and just showed up last year 2018. No ruby throated hummingbirds yet...Monarda is only 2 inch high. My driveway is lined with shoulder high ostrich ferns, with the fragrant native red monarda peaking throughout, which hummingbirds love. My research says Southern Ontario have hummer feeders out early May, but my monarda is only 2 inches and grows to 4 feet, peaking through the ferns. If they are actually here first week of May, they must be feeding on insects. I only have scilla and dog tooth violets in flower and yellow spirea and magnolia. My rhododendron and royal blue scilla and hyacinth are just beginning to open. Nothing else.
****OMG, is that what this is!!!!**** I found it in the house we bought years ago, and since it had a "R", I washed it and started wearing it, I had NO idea what the R really stood for, BUT it makes sense as the guy was an Alcoholic that lived there always drinking, driving drunk....., THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!! Robbie
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy it was my fav beer for 30 years then sobered up. Thank you for your time, I love your channel, this video is why I joined. 🇺🇸 God Bless you and your family have a great day 🇺🇸
Thank you for this video. I love hummingbirds and enjoy watching them. I don't have the amount of birds that you do, which was awesome to watch while listening to this video. You have a beautiful place. Thanks for the tip on the running water.
Wow! Best info ever. I thought unrefined sugar would be better. No hummingbirds this year so far. Switched to reg cane sugar today. Looking forward to more hummers!
I’m so jealous of your yard with all the hummingbirds! And watching them play in the fountains! I had so many hummingbirds where I used to live. More and more came every year. Well we moved across town and now I might see 3 at the most every summer. It makes me so sad because I miss all my hummingbirds so much and wish I could have them like that where I live now.
Great video! I wish you could have shown us more about the "seat" you made for your Hummers. Would love to add those to my feeders. Thank you for the video!!!
HI Robbie !!!, We live in Scottsdale and during the summer months (110*) we have noticed when we change our feeders there is black mold inside the feeders, we NOW change the feeders every other day and we only fill them half way which has resolved the issue... We just got our water pump and look forward to making A solar fountain. Thank you Robbie, My wife and I love your videos.
Hey Robby! I love all your hummingbird videos and due to you I’ve attracted an unreal amount. I was wondering if you could do a tour of your different types and styles of feeders. Would love to know why you love some over others. Also which ones attract more and less and for what reason. Thanks so much I hope to see more videos from you. You’re awesome!!!!!!!!
Your video is so helpful. I hope it helps ticket so many people excited take it out there in their Gardens and feed these little guys. Last Christmas it was so cold our hummingbird feeder froze over. So we had to put Christmas lights around the feeder. To keep it from freezing. And Christmas Eve we still had little Hummers out here :-) Pacific Northwest.
Great idea! I found those same feeders at the Dollar Store, so I bought a handful, then realized they couldn't relax while they fed and hang around! I'm making them a perch out of wire ala Robbie first thing tomorrow. Thank you!
Every year I have had around 6 Hummers. this year not so :( I have 5 feeders placed through out the yard. keep them clean and 1/4 way full. Always If one feeds, another will chase it away. I love love my Hummers. Saw spider webs yesterday, guess I will leave them now:) Thank you for sharing :)
@@RobbieAndGaryGardeningEasy HOW ABOUT CANE SUGAR? WE HAVE 3 FEEDER'S BUT ONLY ONE DRINK'S OUT OF THEM! THIS HUMMINGBIRD STAY'S IN OUR PATIO ALL DAY, THE ONLY TIME HE LEAVE'S IS AT NIGHT! HE CHASES ALL THE HUMMINGBIRD'S AWAY😁 I, LOVE TO SEAT HERE BY THE WINDOW AND WATCH HIM ALL DAY😁
Hi Robbie. I am new to RU-vid. I created the account specifically because of hummingbirds-lol. Thank you for all the info. I thought of asking a question but you answered them all. Thank you!!!!!
Beautiful and lucky southern California but not in Massachusetts. I make fountain waters with the big veggies plastic bowls. Or big cake bowls. Flowers and nectar. But never so many hummingbirds, so I admire your hard work. I noticed you don't have so many flowers for them which are healthier. Thank you for your information. Would be nice to show your garden flowers for them.
Yes, simple is the best for them, check out my new hummingbird video, it is fun, THANKS, Robbie ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VlyrTyboD0E.html
Hi Robbie, this is my third second time watching this video. I just love it. You also mentioned zucchini bread. Would you mind sharing you recipe. I am growing zucchini this year and would like to try your cake recipe. Thanks for all of your teaching!
I did exactly that and they still ignore it........ that’s why I bought the hummingbird vine and other attracting plants! I still love what your doing and love watching your hummers!
I was just going to mention my new feeder doesn’t have perches. I’m off to make some. Great idea! First I’m watching the hummer bath video! I have a bird bath but they don’t use that as far as I’ve ever seen.
Very helpful info. I noticed for first time this year - 2019, that the hummer food I made with Domino brand white sugar seemed a little cloudy. Also it was more finely pulverized than usual. So I made my 4 - 1 water/sugar mix with another brand that has more normal size looking grains of sugar... and behold! it looks clearer. Just being super careful in case anything was mixed in with the Domino sugar. I love our hummers to much to feed them something bad!
I only use Domino white granulated sugar for my feeders. Your water is not hot enough. I microwave my 4 cups for 5 minutes in a 1100 watt unit, add the sugar and stir to crystal clear, Hummers love it!
Thank you for your research I didn't know they stole from the spider's... hummingbirds are my favorite birds they are so beautiful...... so thanks again ......🌻🌻
Hummingbirds like trumpet vines. The vines get beautiful trumpet shaped flowers that are bright coral, but are called scarlet trumpet. I had some many years ago that I found in the woods and transplanted them near our house. You can plant them near a fence or near a dead tree and they will twine around it and become a source of privacy, as well as attracting the birds.
I enjoyed your video. Lots of good info. You might take a deeper look at sucrose recipes and the solutions of what the 1 to 4 volumetric mix of granulated sugar to water actually yields. It is not the oft quoted 20% to 25%, but around 17.9%. Then compare with nectar from flowers that we plant in our hummingbird gardens...
Greetings Robbie, thank you for this informative video. I have 3 feeders on a 2ftx3.5ft ledge outside my 3rd floor window. My apartment is bordered by lightly forested areas on 3 sides, and there is a 40ft "hedge" about fifty feet West from the window, which has a South West exposure. I have a single, male, Anna"s Hummingbird, whom I named, "Captain Renault", immediately after the first time he ate from an individual feeder held in my fingerless gloved left hand, and my first thought as it happened was, "this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship". I'm fairly certain he is the only Hummer utilizing my lovingly concocted 1-4 mix nectar as a food source because he sits on a specific branch inthe hedge directly across and about ten feet below eye level in my apartment for a large portion of the time I'm looking out my window each day, and anytime he's not there, I can sing a verse of, "Oh Where Has My Hummingbird Gone," and he's usually back on the branch, doing a flyby, or sipping nectar within 30 seconds. He, "hums for his supper", once a day when I get the camera out. We have stared at each other from less than 6 inches on his pop ups while feeding as I'm singing along at serious volume to "Jungleland", by Bruce Springsteen. He seems to dig The Big Mans' 2 minute saxophone solo :). Okay-here's my question... Is Captain Renault "playing" and/or "having fun" with the entity he knows provides his food source-oh, and has rescued him once when he accidentally flew INSIDE the window and could not figure out how to get back out-or is he aggressively defending his food source from an intruder? Thanks again for the great video. Happy Humming-ChaosInOrder
Hi Robbie, after I make the feed and put some in the feeder, I put the rest in a jar and put it in the refrigerator. How many days can I keep the jar in the refrigerator??? It's hot here in SC so I change it every 2 nd or 3rd day. I have four different birds that come at different times and I only saw 2 at one time just one day. I plan to put up another feeder and hope more will come. Your information has been so helpful and thank you again. Blessings to you🌷🙌🌹.
It can last in the fridge for over a week, think of it as juice, how long can you leave apple or grape juice open in a fridge, for some time....you can always make less, so you do not have to keep in for a week or more. 2-3 days should be fine outside, Thanks, Robbie
well I found your research very helpful..especially since I wanted a healthy sweetener for the birds...the digestion part was the main part I liked..I always thought sugar was an inflammatory agent so I was searching for some other sweetener..but it appears regular white sugar is the one..not maple sugar ...agave...confectionery...raw or brown sugar....stevia? guess I wont chance it...regular sugar ...thanx!
