Yesterday I made some hummingbird nectar on the stove, poured it into the hummingbird feeder and placed it in the freezer to cool.
Then I forgot about it until this morning.
And then I learned that when frozen sugar water thaws the glass bottle it’s in will crack and break apart.
One thing I knew for certain though: I don’t have the money to buy a new hummingbird feeder.
The perch/feeder part was fine, but finding a replacement bottle with the right size neck to screw it onto was difficult. Living near a convenience store in a shabby neighborhood, I have the literal pick of the litter when it comes to bottles. On the sidewalks and in parking lots and alleys are plastic soda bottles, tall 40-ouncers, and other bottles of assorted sizes and shapes.
But they were all either too big or too small.
However, the strout 1980’s Sprite bottle I salvaged from the cistern last month? That did the trick.
I added a hose clamp, some wire. And soon my hummingbirds were thirsty no more.
