Tweets - I've tried it, and they like it, but I don't know if its a good
thing.

The other day, after noticing a couple of hummers in the neighbor's yard, I
put up my hummingbird feeder. Previously, we had had no success feeding
hummers in our yard, and I'd given up. When I went to mix up some solution,
I saw the brown sugar in the cupboard and thought "why not?". So I mixed up
1 part brown sugar to 4 parts water and filled the feeder. And the hummers
have been coming, including the first ANNA'S I've ever seen in our yard.

I cannot find reference to whether brown sugar is good or bad for
hummingbirds. All the published recipes I can find call for ordinary white
sugar, but they don't specifically say not to use brown sugar. Is brown
sugar bad for hummingbirds, or is it simply not worth the extra expense? It
would seem possible that there would be trace minerals and maybe even
vitamins in brown sugar that would not be in white sugar. But possibly
brown sugar might spoil faster?

Any clues?

== Michael Hobbs
== Kirkland, WA
== hummer at isomedia.com