[CT Birds] To boil or not to boil

[Pam Holden]

I don't boil the water, either.  I've heard the same thing - that there is 
no need to boil it.  I liked Dave's explanation.  (We have well water.)

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> re: preparing the sugar water for hummingbirds--
>
> I was told that there is no need to boil the water, that one can just mix 
> the
> sugar with the water without boiling it first, which is what I did last
> summer.
>
> Could someone weigh in with which is the better method and/or if it is OK 
> to
> not boil the water.  I cleaned my hummer feeder every two days last summer 
> and
> didn't seem to have any problems with either the feeder or the water/sugar
> mixture.
>
> Carolyn Cimino