I make my own solution, 4 cups water to one cup sugar and boil it for a minute or two. I just bought a "rain drop" feeder yesterday, I have never had problems attracting them, if I don't have alot of red on the feeder(two of them just have the little tips that are red)I put some red ribbon on them, and I have about 8-9 regular hummingbirds.
They sit on the rail of our pool deck when we are swimming, and our picnic table is right beside the feeder and it doesn't bother them at all with us out there. I have this little mister on my birdbath and they seem to love that, they play in it. I have to find the picture of my daughter sitting on our swing(its the kind with a canopy over it)and she is sitting there reading a book and a hummingbird is sitting right on the arm of the swing, it was squeaking at her because the feeder was empty.
I would love to put sunflower seeds out, but everytime we have tried it, the bears come and knock them down and eat all the seeds(and leave way too much bear poop)
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