Who has the absolute best humming bird food recipe?

[AndyS]

Currently using the Audubon formula of 1 part sugar to 4 parts water, no food dye. Are there better options out there?

[Alsteen]

1. Sweet

1 part Cane sugar to 4 parts water. That's it. No food color. I understand beet sugar is not as good. They would like it stronger but their little kidneys can't take it.

[Sherman A1]

2. That's about it

I wouldn’t disagree with the folks from the Audubon Society on birds.

[RainCaster]

3. That's the one

We use that year round for our hummers. Great recipe, safe for them.

[Botany]

4. "Are there better options out there?" Yes ... go native

cardinal flower, columbine, royal catchfly, blue lobelia, red milkweed, milkweeds,
asters, native iris, bergamot, penstemon, hyssop, and native lupines

Trumpet Vine is good but it can be a pain in the ass.

Non native annuals (they can be grown in hanging baskets too .... close to the house)

Lantana, Nasturium, some of the begonias too.

[IA8IT]

5. Trumpet Vine Is the WORST pain in the ass. Super strong conainer only.

Spent weeks digging roots out of my wife's flower beds. Root spread high and low and far.

[Botany]

6. You got to spray that shit.

I have some on a project I have been working on for sometime now and it keeps
coming back.