A green-backed hummingbird perches on a thin branch with a soft background.

How to Build Your Own ‘Orb of Tranquility’ for Hummingbirds

Wanting to create something new for your garden for visiting hummingbirds is understandable. Most of us enjoy looking for new simple and inexpensive ideas to enhance our yards for our feathered friends. A recently started project in the birding community is called “Orb of Tranquility”. One of the members in the sub-reddit r/Hummingbirds named 9VoltGorilla made a video guide on how to make this unique feature to lure hummingbirds to your garden. shared a video guide

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Following the Guide

If you are interested in attempting this build, there is a link to a step-by-step guide in the comments of the creator’s post. You don’t need to spend a lot of money on professional materials to make a beautiful and functional space that hummingbirds will use. There are many examples and demonstrations on the internet on how to make things yourself. As a new budding bird enthusiast, you will have a lot of fun on projects like this. If you want to see the instructions and full video, go to the Reddit discussion thread.