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From: barr@frog.UUCP (Chris Barr)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: humming bird feeders
Summary: test tube + wire + sugar water
Message-ID: <1654@frog.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jul 89 04:12:00 GMT
References: <11688@cgl.ucsf.EDU>
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Organization: Charles River Data Systems, Framingham MA
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In article <11688@cgl.ucsf.EDU> alonso@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Darwin Alonso) writes:
>Does anyone have any instructions for homemade humming bird feeders?

I've succeeded with a test tube, wrapped around the top with reasonably
strong wire, attached horizontally to a branch.  Fill the tube with sugar
water & watch them hover.  Works best in flowering bushes that they come to.