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Title: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: Tupac on September 29, 2011, 09:25:27 PM
tastes like kool-aid

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Title: Re: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: allaire on September 30, 2011, 07:35:59 AM
Isn't it basically unflavored kool-aid? :rofl
Title: Re: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: VonMessa on September 30, 2011, 07:41:32 AM
Wow, you actually spent money on that?

Sugar water with red food coloring is much cheaper  :D
Title: Re: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: Jenks on September 30, 2011, 12:10:32 PM
you don't even need the food coloring
Title: Re: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: whopper2 on September 30, 2011, 12:42:24 PM
you don't even need the food coloring


Hummingbirds are naturally attracted to the color red.  That is the reason why most feeders and the liquid are red to begin with.

Title: Re: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: Tupac on September 30, 2011, 01:53:41 PM
Wow, you actually spent money on that?

Sugar water with red food coloring is much cheaper  :D

It was in my friends moms refrigerator. We decided the only reasonable thing to do was try some. It was good.
Title: Re: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: Maverick on September 30, 2011, 01:54:45 PM
One of the symptoms of becoming a bird brain is the ingestion of stuff like hummingbird food........... It may be too late for you......
Title: Re: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: uptown on September 30, 2011, 01:57:02 PM
Wow, you actually spent money on that?

Sugar water with red food coloring is much cheaper  :D
  :lol yup
Title: Re: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: chaser on September 30, 2011, 02:00:51 PM
tastes like kool-aid

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I had some of this last year at my house. Looked and smelled just to dang good to not try it  :rock

Tupac tells the truth. It tastes JUST like kool-aid.
Title: Re: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: skorpion on September 30, 2011, 05:07:36 PM
hmm...guess its just kool-aid in disguise?


*tinfoil hat on*
:noid
Title: Re: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: PFactorDave on September 30, 2011, 05:10:13 PM
I had some of this last year at my house. Looked and smelled just to dang good to not try it  :rock

Tupac tells the truth. It tastes JUST like kool-aid.

No wonder Hummingbirds seem so hyper...  They're just sugared up!
Title: Re: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: Wolfala on September 30, 2011, 05:49:28 PM
Note to self.

Supply with Sudafed and observe results.
Title: Re: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: Tupac on September 30, 2011, 05:52:54 PM
Note to self.

Supply with Sudafed and observe results.

 :rofl
Title: Re: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: morfiend on September 30, 2011, 05:58:18 PM
Wow, you actually spent money on that?

Sugar water with red food coloring is much cheaper  :D



  Yes but it can kill the birds your trying to feed if it goes bad,sugar water shouldnt be left out more than 12 hours or you risk causing the birds to die.

  The water should be boiled and the feeder sterilized everytime you set it out.


  I feed hummers,they nest around my yard every year,maybe it's something in the garden that attracts them....  I always use commercial hummingbud feed as it's the safest product for them and I take it down after 24 hours and make another batch and sterilize the feeder.



    :salute
Title: Re: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: Meatwad on September 30, 2011, 06:11:46 PM
Need to put valium in it, then they will be like............whoa!
Title: Re: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: hubsonfire on September 30, 2011, 11:01:42 PM
One quarter cup sugar, one cup hot tap water, stir until dissolved. Chill during hot weather. No boiling, no preservatives, no coloring. I change the water out when it gets cloudy, smells funny, or attracts too many insects. The birds all seem healthy, but don't get too close; they're like miniature meth-heads.
Title: Re: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: Rash on October 01, 2011, 03:17:17 PM
I was waiting in line at a home and garden store once, and the guy in front of me bought around $200 worth of that stuff.
Title: Re: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: F22RaptorDude on October 01, 2011, 04:53:41 PM
Doesn't anti-freeze taste like Kool-aid  :D
Title: Re: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: Meatwad on October 01, 2011, 05:59:38 PM
Depends on the flavor

Green - lime
Orange - orange
Title: Re: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: VonMessa on October 03, 2011, 06:37:16 AM


  Yes but it can kill the birds your trying to feed if it goes bad,sugar water shouldnt be left out more than 12 hours or you risk causing the birds to die.

  The water should be boiled and the feeder sterilized everytime you set it out.


  I feed hummers,they nest around my yard every year,maybe it's something in the garden that attracts them....  I always use commercial hummingbud feed as it's the safest product for them and I take it down after 24 hours and make another batch and sterilize the feeder.



    :salute

Wife takes care of all that.  I just watch them  :aok
Title: Re: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: morfiend on October 03, 2011, 10:17:42 AM
Wife takes care of all that.  I just watch them  :aok


 Nice!!!

  They,hummers,can be quite aggressive and territorial. Last summer my wife and I watched a hummer take on a large bumblebee,now the bee was as big or bigger than the bird but the bird was the master of the BnZ attack and armed with it's .0030 mm  beakcannon it was too much for the bee and drove it off!   :joystick: :joystick:

  It actually happened and was something to see!  I was amazed to see the hummer actually use it's beak like a sword and whack the bee around!



   :salute
Title: Re: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: VonMessa on October 03, 2011, 11:33:52 AM

 Nice!!!

  They,hummers,can be quite aggressive and territorial. Last summer my wife and I watched a hummer take on a large bumblebee,now the bee was as big or bigger than the bird but the bird was the master of the BnZ attack and armed with it's .0030 mm  beakcannon it was too much for the bee and drove it off!   :joystick: :joystick:

  It actually happened and was something to see!  I was amazed to see the hummer actually use it's beak like a sword and whack the bee around!



   :salute

They are pretty mean birds when they want to be :D
Title: Re: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: Frodo on October 03, 2011, 12:30:11 PM
Damn things are amazing and definitely use that beak as a weapon. When they are looking for mates, they will fly chest to chest pushing each other. They will go up and down like this until one gives way. Their flying ability is amazing, unmatched only by their attitude.  :D

They make small feeders that attach to a window with suction cups. These are a pain to keep filled but you get some great close up viewing.  :aok
Title: Re: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: WYOKIDIII on October 03, 2011, 12:30:47 PM
  Just east of Laramie Peak ,  in Wyoming , in the middle of a mountain cattle ranch , is an old cabin built in the 1930's known as "Hubbards Cupboard" . It was a bar a dancehall in it's heyday . For whatever reason Hummingbirds  are thick as flys there . Very cool little birds , and they are extremely aggressive . It's amazing to watch a bird that weighs no more than a few grams intimidate the hell out of a 250 lb grown man .   :lol
Title: Re: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: dedalos on October 03, 2011, 12:51:55 PM
you don't even need the food coloring


Sugar water in a red feeder  :old:
Title: Re: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: Jenks on October 03, 2011, 04:18:03 PM
Sugar water in a red feeder  :old:

Yep! or trumpet shaped, and put out as many as you can, more hummers will show and stake them out as there own. A hummingbird furball will erupt!
Title: Re: Hummingbird food.......
Post by: dedalos on October 03, 2011, 04:23:20 PM
Yep! or trumpet shaped, and put out as many as you can, more hummers will show and stake them out as there own. A hummingbird furball will erupt!

They are mean little birds lol