My suggestion is to feed hummers more naturally by planting red and dark pink flowers — red yucca, gaura, desert honeysuckle, hyssop and others. My planter boxes containing these flowers were constantly visited all last summer. The flowers bloom throughout the season into early fall and don't get moldy or dirty or empty out like plastic feeders.

Regards,

Jana Hazelbaker

On Sun, Apr 6, 2025 at 5:29 PM Heather Gordon via Neighbors_nobhill-nm <neighbors_nobhill-nm@mailman.swcp.com> wrote:

The International Hummingbird Society recommends refined white sugar only, and says specifically to avoid raw sugars.

Feeding Hummingbirds | International Hummingbird Society

hummingbirdsociety.org

Supposedly this is due to the amount of iron in raw sugars.

The Audubon Society recommends avoiding the red dye.

How to Make Hummingbird Nectar

audubon.org

So take these sources as you will, but it might be safer for the hummers to switch back to refined white sugar.

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