Customer Reviews

Songbird Essentials SE629 Clear Hummingbird Nectar, 24 Ounce

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I have the best success with this clear hummingbird nectar. I cannot find it in any local stores. The local stores only sell red nectar, and my neighborhood hummers do not like it as well as this clear formula. Usually one can lasts me most of the season April through September (re-filling 2 1/2 feeders every weekend).

This was very easy to mix up with no boiling needed so I always have a quick supply for a quick refill. I do make the sugar/water mixture myself BUT when pressed for time and I have a pack of hungry hummers staring at me through the window this stuff is great.
My dad loves it because its very easy for him to do and he wouldn't keep up on the mixing and boiling himself.
We really have a bumper crop of hummingbirds this spring and they seem to love it! It was shipped quickly and came in good conditon.

The hummingbirds love it. I wasn't sure if the clear would work as good as the red, but the clear is better!

Just got this and whipped up a batch. There were birds out there within minutes! I am not the normal hummingbird "caregiver" in our family, but this is so fast to mix up and the birds love it.

If you are new to hummingbird watching/feeding, the containers need to be clean and pristine, or the birds won't eat. The company that sells this food also sells little brushes for cleaning the feeders, FYI.

**** One more thing--a woman on here wrote that she soaked the containers in bleach water to get the pesky scum off the containers. We had two old feeders that were dirty, so I soaked them all day in a bucket of water with a little bleach, thoroughly rinsed them, then filled and the birds came back to those feeders.

Loving this--the bird watching is cheap entertainment and a nice way to help young kids begin to learn caring for animals. Two thumbs up!!

I put up our new feeder yesterday, and within hours we had 3-5 hummers visiting. Today, they were back almost the whole day long. And a month later, we're refilling the feeder (10 ounces) every two days!

This nectar is affordable ... I think. I haven't worked out what a plain sugar and water solution would cost which is what I used to use in our old feeder. Now that the 5 pound bag of sugar has been replaced by a 4 pound (have you noticed?), this may well be a good value. But it's worth every penny to watch 12 hours of hummingbird antics around the feeder.

I do wish that Songbird Essentials would have put the measurements with their scoop for a 10 ounce feeder. I never learned metrics, and I'm not a math whiz, but when my wife couldn't figure out that it was 1.75 measures for 10 ounces, I decided to note it here. The container gives examples of 8, 12, and 16 ounce, and here we are 1ith 10. Eight years of college down the drain.

P.S. I just ordered two more.

If I was a hummingbird I could tell you definitively that this was the tastiest bird food concentrate on the market, but since I'm just a human bird feeder owner all I can say is that the birds seem to really like this stuff.

There's really not much more to say...it seems to please the birds, it's not overwhelmingly expensive or tough to prepare.