Before starting DIY your hummingbird feeder, we need to know what kind of food the feeder should hold while the the hummers drink nectar and eat bugs. We can catch bugs and let go the bugs where the hummingbirds appear to search food. But it’s hard for DIYers to make a bug feeder to the hummers. Actually we just need to feed our hummers with nectar, they can hunt bugs for protein after they get energy from the nectar. So the feeder we are making for hummingbirds is just to hold liquid (nectar). Such a feeder is usually a bottle (better to be a glass wine bottle that is easy to get) with a tube stopper (feeding port).
Bottles are easy to get, many used empty wine bottles can be good tanks for the sugar water. The other important part is a tube stopper to stop the leakage and with a tube serve as a feeding port. We need to buy this tube stopper because it’s cheap but hard to make by ourselves. It just cost us very little money to get a tube stopper that features anti-leakage stopper and red flower-shape feeding port to attract hummingbirds.
Bottles are easy to get, many used empty wine bottles are the good tanks for the sugar water. The other important part is a tube stopper to stop the leakage and with a tube end serves as a feeding port. We need to buy this tube stopper because it’s cheap but hard to make by ourselves. It just cost us very little money to get a tube stopper that features anti-leakage stopper and red flower-shape feeding port to attract hummingbirds. Some people would use common metal/plastic tube and glue to make a tube stretch out of the hole made on the bottle cap. But the tube is not that attractive to hummingbirds as a commercial tube stopper and the glue would dissolve into the nectar after a long time under the sunshine and may be poisonous to birds.
Please note that the bottle feeder as above is really ugly that I downloaded from a tube stopper seller on amazon.com. Actually the feeder can be very beautiful and fashion if you have some good-looking wine bottles.