We see little hummies everyday at the feeder!! They're so much fun to watch. :)

Kitty - yay, another one gets the hummingbird bug!

:D

I always do sugar water, no food dye. My birds will not drink the packet suff - and don't care what color it is, so why bother with that?

I found if the feeder - at least part of it - is red, that's good enough.

They feed off a lot of flowers that are not red at all - the first ones I had were hitting on blue/purple salvias.

Mrs D - You are right about the feeders and vapor lock. I've had the best luck with the cheap plastic ones from the dollar store. They have a two peice bottom that snaps together. Our temps always have 20+ diff, night to day. But this design allows for just enough expansion or something where it will drip a bit (in the morning), but not lock up or totally pour out.

They usually are good two years before they fall apart and dump all the sugar water.

I still hang them close to my window/front door. But I also hang a yellow jacket trap near by. I did not have wasps/bees fighting off my hummies this year.

I haven't noticed any bees hanging around. I've put my feeder on the front of the house right across the walkway from my potted flowers. They like to buzz around them, too.

I only use plain sugar water, too. No dyes. The bottle on the feeder has a big colorful picture of a hummingbird on it and the bottom round part where they sit is red so I think that must attract them.

I've changed the water out a few times already. Probably too often than is necessary but I don't want it to go bad and have the hummies get sick because of it. It just takes a minute.

Even my kids love it and they're older boys!