Top Product: Hummingbird Sugar Water

Michael In San Francisco, we have hummingbirds, cute creatures, about two inches long, with long pointed beaks, and they're beating their wings so incredibly fast that they can hover in the air! When such a hummingbird, in German they're called "Kolibri", approaches, it makes a buzzing sound as if an oversized bumblebee were flying by. And just like that, they are gone again; they seem to be living in an extremely hectic world.

As previously reported (Rundbrief 09/2005) we once rented a little house in the countryside, and the owners there had a hummingbird feeder. It's a glass container that you fill with red sugar water, and the hummingbirds zoom over to it and sip the liquid from the openings.

I thought to myself that I could buy something like that for our balcony, so I went to "Target," a large supermarket chain. At first, I wandered aimlessly through the endless aisles, only to unexpectedly come across an entire shelf (!) of hummingbird supplies. I purchased a feeder and a large pack of the red sugary stuff, filled the glass container at home, and hung the whole thing on the balcony.

For weeks, nothing happened, but all of a sudden, we started receiving regular visits. I can hardly keep up with refilling, as the little devils eagerly devour my treats. Top product!