Adrienne Parkhurst
The Daily Cuppa
Published in
Aug 20, 2021

To get more hummingbirds, I had to sweeten the deal.

Close up of green hummingbird with lime green background.
Photo by Zdeněk Macháček on Unsplash

A few weeks into summer, I noticed a green-backed hummingbird hovering outside my kitchen window — staring at me.

Oops. Forgot to put the feeder out!

I whipped up a homemade recipe of sugar water. It called for a 1:4 sugar to water ratio. Once full, I hung the small tube in the same spot as last year.

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Adrienne Parkhurst
The Daily Cuppa

Mom. Wife. Writer. Editor. Healthcare Freelance Writer. Lifetime Learner. Flawed Leader. Sharing my life lessons through personal essays and memoirs.