Making hummingbird food is pretty easy and a great way to attract cute hummingbirds (and other not-so-cute birds) to your garden or backyard.

First, gather and mix your ingredients. What are your ingredients? Just sugar and water! It’s that easy. A 1:4 ratio of sugar to water makes sure most of the sugar will be dissolved.

Second, heat up the mix. Two minutes or so should do the trick. Just put it in a microwave-safe container and heat it up in the microwave. That should dissolve all the sugar.

Next, just let the mix cool. You’ll want it completely cool (like me) before you put it in the feeder. Hummingbirds don’t like hot food.

Then, you’re almost done.

Gently pour the food into your feeder. Do this outside, so when you make a mess, it doesn’t attract any critters indoors.

Put the feeder back outside on your window and you’re done! Now all the cute, tiny hummingbirds will know you’re the place with the good food.

Enjoy the humming visitors!