{"id":201,"date":"2011-06-18T16:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-18T16:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/?p=201"},"modified":"2011-06-18T16:10:00","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T16:10:00","slug":"hummingbird-nectar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/?p=201","title":{"rendered":"Hummingbird Nectar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-a0KE0Gdxv2g\/TfzHXiUy5VI\/AAAAAAAAPd4\/st11tEgWMrs\/s1600\/Hummingbird+Feeder.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-a0KE0Gdxv2g\/TfzHXiUy5VI\/AAAAAAAAPd4\/st11tEgWMrs\/s200\/Hummingbird+Feeder.JPG\" width=\"200\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Hummingbirds excite me; they really do.\u00a0 We have a feeder hanging on our front porch. I don&#8217;t know why, but I feel compelled to announce, &#8220;Look, a hummingbird!&#8221; every time they land on it. We had a hummingbird fly into the house one summer.\u00a0 It got caught up behind the blinds on the window and I actually had to catch it and cradle it in my hands to take it back outside.\u00a0 It felt like I was holding a cotton ball.<\/p>\n<p>Have you ever looked at the ingredients in those store bought nectar packets?\u00a0 Sucrose (sugar), a preservative, and food coloring&#8230;that&#8217;s it.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s how to make your own:<\/p>\n<p>2 C. boiling water<br \/>1\/2 C. granulated sugar<\/p>\n<p>Dissolve the sugar completely in the boiling water. Let cool. Fill feeder. The kind of feeders I like are the ones that have a large opening so it can be cleaned easily. If you are putting out a feeder for the first time, or even in a new spot, a drop of red food coloring may help attract the hummingbirds, but once they know the feeder is there, you no longer need the coloring.<a style=\"text-decoration:none\" href=\"\/index.php?eo=best+price+on+brand+astelin\">.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hummingbirds excite me; they really do.\u00a0 We have a feeder hanging on our front porch. I don&#8217;t know why, but I feel compelled to announce, &#8220;Look, a hummingbird!&#8221; every time they land on it. We had a hummingbird fly into the house one summer.\u00a0 It got caught up behind the blinds on the window and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}