{"title":"Hummingbird Feeders","description":"\u003cp\u003eNectar feeders for hummingbirds — glass bottles, dish bases, ports with perches, and the ant moats and bee guards that keep the sugar water for the birds. Seed feeders live in Bird Feeders.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"hummingbird-feeder-with-a-built-in-ant-moat-8-oz-glass-4-ports-and-bee-guards","title":"Hummingbird Feeder With A Built-In Ant Moat - 8 oz Glass, 4 Ports And Bee Guards","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnts find a hummingbird feeder before the hummingbirds do. They come down the hanging wire in a thin dark line, get into the nectar, and by the time you have noticed, the batch is finished and the birds have gone to somebody else’s garden for the week.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe cap on this one answers that with water. It is moulded as a shallow open dish sitting directly above the bottle — a moat — and you fill it from a watering can at the same time you fill the hummingbird feeder. Ants come down the hook, meet the water and stop there. Nothing about it is clever, which is most of why it works. The one thing it asks of you: water goes down faster than nectar does in hot weather, so top the moat up when you check the feeder, or it is just an empty dish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBees are the other half of the problem, and they get handled at the ports rather than at the top. Each of the four flower-shaped ports has a small yellow mesh guard sitting in the middle of it. A hummingbird’s bill is a needle and goes straight through the lattice to the nectar underneath; blunter mouthparts stop at the mesh. The nectar sits below the guard instead of at the surface of an open hole, and that is the whole mechanism — not that no insect ever lands on the hummingbird feeder, but that the sweet part is not sitting out in the open waiting for one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bottle is glass rather than plastic. It stays clear enough to read the nectar level from the kitchen window, so you know whether this hummingbird feeder needs doing before you walk out to it. The shape is an hourglass — wide at the shoulder, pinched at the waist, flaring again at the foot — and it screws down onto the red base on a moulded glass thread.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEight fluid ounces makes this a small hummingbird feeder, and that is a trade rather than a shortcoming. Nectar does not keep in warm weather; a few days and it goes cloudy. A big reservoir mostly means pouring more of it away, while a small one runs down at about the rate you ought to be changing it anyway. If you already have half a dozen birds working one feeder, expect to be out there every couple of days.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCleaning is where a hummingbird feeder is won or lost, and this one comes all the way apart. The cap lifts off, the base unscrews, the four flower ports pull out, the four bee guards come out of the ports, and what is left is a bottle with a mouth wide enough to take a bottle brush — no funnel, no cotton bud, no corner you cannot reach. Nothing is glued and nothing needs a tool.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHang it from the S-hook through the cap: a porch beam, a low branch, a shepherd’s hook in a border, a bracket on a fence post. Put it somewhere you will actually look at it. A hummingbird feeder in the far corner of the garden becomes a chore; one you can see from a chair is the reason you wanted a hummingbird feeder in the first place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnts Up Top, Bees At The Ports\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFour Ports, Four Perches\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWide Mouth, No Funnel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHang It Where You'll See It\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Winslow Lane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43309277970509,"sku":"WL-HUMMGLASS","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/4445\/6781\/files\/a0684c59b54ce1d5d46bdf73bb28c1df.png?v=1785007625"},{"product_id":"hummingbird-feeder-in-diamond-cut-red-glass-16-oz-4-metal-ports-and-a-full-circle-perch","title":"Hummingbird Feeder In Diamond-Cut Red Glass - 16 oz, 4 Metal Ports And A Full-Circle Perch","description":"\u003cp\u003eA hummingbird can hover the whole time it feeds at a hummingbird feeder. It just costs more than it looks like it does — the wings are running flat out the entire time, and the bird leaves as soon as it has had enough rather than as soon as it is done. Give it somewhere to stand and it stays.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat is the argument for the perch on this hummingbird feeder, which is not four little stirrups under four ports but one continuous metal ring running the whole way round the base. A bird lands wherever it happens to arrive, walks round to the port it wants and settles. Two or three can be on it at once without meeting head-on. It also means you get to watch a bird sitting still for half a minute, which is most of the reason anybody puts a hummingbird feeder up at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe four ports are metal rather than moulded plastic, pressed into flat red flowers and set into a metal base plate. The openings are small — wide enough for a bill and not much else. Being straight about it: that is all they are. There is no mesh guard sitting in them and nothing to lift out, so if wasps are a real problem in your garden this is not the hummingbird feeder that solves it. Narrow ports with the nectar sitting below the surface make it less interesting to them, and that is the honest end of the claim.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnts get handled separately, above the feeder rather than on it. A small red cup with its own S-hook goes on the line between your hook and the handle, and you fill it with water. Ants come down the wire, meet it and stop. It costs nothing to run, it needs no part of the hummingbird feeder to work, and it makes one demand: keep water in it. On a hot week the cup goes dry faster than the nectar goes down, and a dry moat is just a small red cup.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bottle is deep red diamond-cut glass, and it is why this hummingbird feeder looks like garden furniture rather than a plastic thing hanging in a tree. Worth knowing before you order: coloured glass this dark does not let you read the nectar line from the kitchen window. You check this one by going out and lifting it. If seeing the level from indoors matters more to you than the look, buy a clear one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt holds 16 fl oz and stands 9.5 inches tall by 6 across, which is a middling size on purpose. A bigger hummingbird feeder mostly means pouring more away: nectar goes cloudy in warm weather within a few days, so one that empties at about the rate you ought to be changing it is doing you a favour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCleaning is a two-minute job. The base unscrews off the bottle, the mouth is wide enough to take a bottle brush, and every part of the hummingbird feeder gets washed by hand in hot water — hand wash only, nothing here goes in a dishwasher. Hang the hummingbird feeder from its wire handle on a branch, a bracket or a shepherd’s hook, hook the moat in above it, and put it where you can see it from a chair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFour Ports, One Perch Ring\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Mouth You Can Get A Brush Into\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSomewhere You Actually Sit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEverything Happens At The Base\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Winslow Lane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43309943029837,"sku":"WL-HUMMDIAM","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/4445\/6781\/files\/0b3d37d9d86959f7a20f6b98dac020ad.png?v=1785012615"},{"product_id":"hummingbird-feeder-in-hand-blown-speckled-glass-24-oz-4-ports-and-a-ring-perch","title":"Hummingbird Feeder In Hand-Blown Speckled Glass - 24 oz, 4 Ports And A Ring Perch","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the first week of August a busy hummingbird feeder can go from full to empty in two days. If yours holds eight ounces you are out there with the jug every other morning, usually in your dressing gown, usually before coffee.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis one holds twenty-four. That is three times the small bottle feeders and it changes the rhythm of owning one: you top it up when you feel like it rather than when the birds have already emptied it and moved on. This hummingbird feeder stands 11 inches tall and 5.9 across, so it reads as a proper object hanging in a border rather than a gadget.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a limit to that argument and it is worth saying. A big hummingbird feeder in hot weather does not mean you change the nectar less often — it means you pour more of it away. Sugar water goes cloudy in a few days whatever hummingbird feeder it sits in. If you have one or two birds rather than a dozen, fill this one half full and change it on the same schedule you would anyway.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe glass is hand-blown, which is a real difference rather than a description. Red is thrown through with orange, cream and yellow in a mottled speckle that runs down into fine streaks towards the foot, and no two come out the same. It is also opaque enough that you will not read the nectar line through it from indoors, so checking this hummingbird feeder means walking out and lifting it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour flower ports sit in the black metal plate under this hummingbird feeder, and the perch is one continuous ring running right round the outside of it rather than four separate loops — a bird lands wherever it arrives and walks to the port it wants. What the ports do not have is guards. There is no mesh and nothing set inside them, so the hummingbird feeder is not doing anything about wasps beyond keeping the nectar below the surface instead of open at the top.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnts are handled above it. A small red cup with its own S-hook goes on the line between your hook and the handle, and you fill it with water; ants coming down the wire towards the hummingbird feeder stop at it. Keep water in it, or it stops nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere the glass meets the base there is a food-grade silicone gasket, and the two are made to fit each other closely. That is the mechanism, and it is as far as we will go — every hummingbird feeder in this category promises never to drip and most eventually do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe mouth is extra wide, so filling is a straight pour and washing is a bottle brush rather than patience. No brush comes in the box, which is worth knowing if you do not already own one. Hang the hummingbird feeder from its wire handle on a branch, a shepherd’s hook or a bracket, hook the moat in above it, and put it somewhere you look at every day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Base Comes Apart\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFill The Little Cup With Water\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwenty-Four Ounces\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt Stays Out All Year\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Winslow Lane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43309943160909,"sku":"WL-HUMMBLOWN","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/4445\/6781\/files\/43b1f2616913e2edc5c496d8843e1c61.png?v=1785012650"},{"product_id":"hummingbird-feeder-with-3-mm-bee-guards-14-oz-glass-5-ports-and-an-ant-moat","title":"Hummingbird Feeder With 3 mm Bee Guards - 14 oz Glass, 5 Ports And An Ant Moat","description":"\u003cp\u003eWasps find sugar water in about a day. Then they sit on the ports, the hummingbirds hang back in the shrub waiting for a gap, and within a week your hummingbird feeder is a wasp feeder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis one narrows the opening to 3 mm. That is the whole idea, and the number is the point: a hummingbird’s bill is a needle and slides straight through, while blunter mouthparts stop at the plastic. The nectar sits below the guard rather than at the top of an open hole, so there is nothing at the surface to land on. Five yellow flower ports, each one built that way. It will not empty your garden of wasps — nothing hanging outdoors full of sugar does that — but it takes away the easy meal, and that is usually enough to hand the hummingbird feeder back to the birds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnts come at it from the other direction, down the hanging line, and get a different answer: a small red cup that you fill with water and hang above the hummingbird feeder on one of the two S-hooks in the box. They reach the water and stop. Keep it topped up — on a hot week the water goes before the nectar does, and an empty moat is decoration.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnderneath, the base widens into a scalloped tray that runs right round the hummingbird feeder, which is where the birds actually sit. A perched hummingbird stays four or five times longer than a hovering one, so a hummingbird feeder with a tray is the difference between a blur past the window and something you get to watch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bottle is faceted red glass, 14 fl oz, on a base 5.5 inches across, and the whole hummingbird feeder stands 9.84 inches tall. Fourteen ounces is deliberately not much: nectar sours in warm weather within a few days, and a smaller batch is a fresher one. If you already have a crowd of birds, expect to fill this every couple of days in high summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo honest notes before you buy. The base of this hummingbird feeder is not dishwasher safe — wash it by hand, in hot water, and the wide mouth on the bottle means a bottle brush reaches everything without a fight. And the moat screws onto its long hook, which on some units takes a couple of goes to line up and tighten. Neither is a fault you would return it over, but you should hear both from us rather than find them out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFill it, screw the base on, turn it over and hang the hummingbird feeder from the wire handle — a tree hook, a deck hook, a shepherd’s hook. Somewhere with clear air around it and a window you sit at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFourteen Ounces\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFive Ports, Each One 3 mm Across\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWide Mouth, Warm Water, Done\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt Comes With The Bits You Need\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Winslow Lane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43309943226445,"sku":"WL-HUMMGUARD","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/4445\/6781\/files\/baee168e6815a190cb975a9df2133db6.png?v=1785012685"},{"product_id":"hummingbird-feeder-in-diamond-cut-purple-glass-25-oz-5-ports-and-a-ring-perch","title":"Hummingbird Feeder In Diamond-Cut Purple Glass - 25 oz, 5 Ports And A Ring Perch","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost hummingbird feeders are red, because red is what the birds are supposed to notice. It works, and it also means the shelf in the garden centre is a wall of the same object in the same colour, and whichever hummingbird feeder you pick disappears into the border the moment you hang it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis one is cut glass in violet shading down to turquoise, and it is the reason to buy it. Light goes through the facets rather than bouncing off them, so the colour changes as the sun moves and the whole thing reads as a piece of coloured glass first and a hummingbird feeder second. The ports are still red-adjacent — five small violet flowers with brass centres — and birds find it perfectly well.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnderneath the hummingbird feeder, a black metal plate carries those five ports, and a single wire ring runs right round the outside of it. That ring is the perch, and it is one continuous rail rather than five separate loops: a bird lands wherever it happens to arrive and walks round to whichever port it wants. Hummingbirds will hover to feed if they have to, but they would far rather sit, and a perched bird stays long enough to actually look at.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe hummingbird feeder holds 25 fl oz, which is a lot, and stands 11.81 inches tall by 6.1 across with a base 1.77 inches deep. Worth thinking about honestly: a big reservoir does not mean you change the nectar less often. Sugar water goes cloudy in a few days in warm weather regardless, so unless you have a busy garden, fill this hummingbird feeder half full and change it on the same schedule you would use for a small one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhere the glass meets the base there is a rubber O-ring and a screw fastening that pulls the two together. That is the mechanism and that is all we will say about it — every hummingbird feeder in this category is sold on a promise about drips, and the honest version is that a clean thread, a seated O-ring and a firm turn are what keep nectar where it belongs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is in the box is the feeder, the base and the hardware to hang it. If insects find the nectar where you hang it — and somewhere in most gardens they will — a small water cup threaded onto the line above any hummingbird feeder is the cheap, old answer, and it works on this one as well as on any other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCleaning is a wide-mouth job — the bottle opens far enough to take a bottle brush and the base separates from it, so every surface is reachable. No brush comes in the box. Hang the hummingbird feeder from the flat-topped handle on a branch, a bracket or a shepherd’s hook, somewhere with light behind it, because that is when the glass is worth having.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCut Glass That Changes Colour Down Its Height\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwenty-Five Ounces\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou Can Fill It Without A Funnel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHang It Where You Sit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Winslow Lane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43309943259213,"sku":"WL-HUMMPURP","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/4445\/6781\/files\/434d92a50aa1a89ab3acae3cb41efab7.png?v=1785012720"},{"product_id":"hummingbird-feeder-in-antique-green-glass-10-oz-with-a-bird-pressed-into-the-bottle","title":"Hummingbird Feeder In Antique Green Glass - 10 oz With A Bird Pressed Into The Bottle","description":"\u003cp\u003eLook at the plain band in the middle of the bottle. There is a hummingbird pressed into it — wings back, bill forward, the same green as the glass around it, only visible when the light comes across it from the side. It is the sort of detail that used to be pressed into bottles as a matter of course and almost never is on a hummingbird feeder now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat is the reason to choose this hummingbird feeder over any of the red plastic ones, and it is worth being clear that it is the reason. The soft sea-green glass, the raised bands of beads and ovals, the brushed nickel saucer under it — this is a hummingbird feeder you hang somewhere you can see it, not a piece of equipment you tuck round the side of the house.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat it does is straightforward. Ten fluid ounces of nectar sit in a thick pressed-glass bottle that screws down into the saucer on a moulded glass thread. Four flower ports are set into that saucer, each with a small perch beside it, so four birds can be on the hummingbird feeder at once and none of them has to hover to drink.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen ounces is not much, and that is the trade you are making for the look. In a garden with several regulars this hummingbird feeder empties in a couple of days in high summer. That is less of a problem than it sounds — nectar goes cloudy in warm weather within about that long anyway, so a small bottle mostly forces the habit you should already have.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo other things about this hummingbird feeder that you should hear before you buy. There is no ant guard and nothing set inside the ports: if insects find it where you hang it, a small water cup threaded onto the line above is the cheap old answer and it works on this feeder as well as any. And the maker publishes no height or width for it anywhere, so we are not going to quote you a figure we cannot stand behind. What is published is 10 fl oz, four ports and four perches, and a tall narrow bottle rather than a wide reservoir.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe hummingbird feeder comes apart into three pieces — bottle, base cap and saucer — which is the whole cleaning story. Unscrew, wash the three parts in hot water, rinse, dry, refill. Nothing is glued and there is no corner a brush cannot reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHang it from the loop at the top: a porch beam, a low branch, a deck bracket, a shepherd’s hook in a border. Green glass wants light behind it, so a spot where the morning or evening sun can get through the bottle is doing the hummingbird feeder a favour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThere Is A Bird In The Glass\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFour Ports With Somewhere To Sit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIt Is Three Pieces\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYou Can See What Is Left\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Winslow Lane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43309945225293,"sku":"WL-HUMMANTQ","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/4445\/6781\/files\/d63fe2bf3e389ddc4ab397675ff00516.png?v=1785012766"},{"product_id":"hummingbird-feeder-with-10-ports-32-oz-wide-mouth-reservoir-and-a-full-perch-ring","title":"Hummingbird Feeder With 10 Ports - 32 oz Wide-Mouth Reservoir And A Full Perch Ring","description":"\u003cp\u003eTen ports is the number that makes this one different, and it is not a spec-sheet flourish. Hummingbirds are territorial: one bird will sit on a feeder and spend its whole afternoon chasing everything else off it. Give a hummingbird feeder ten openings spread the whole way round a wide base and one bird cannot see them all at once. The chasing does not stop, but it stops working.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe perch is one continuous ring right round the outside, so a bird lands wherever it happens to arrive and walks round to whichever port is free. On a busy afternoon you can have several birds on this hummingbird feeder at the same time on opposite sides of the ring, which is a thing you almost never get to watch on a four-port bottle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt holds 32 fl oz. That is a lot of nectar, and it deserves the honest caveat: a big reservoir does not mean you change it less often. Sugar water goes cloudy within a few days in warm weather no matter what it is in. Fill this hummingbird feeder right up if you have a crowd working it; if you have two birds, put a third of it in and change it just as often.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe whole hummingbird feeder is moulded polymer rather than glass, which is a real trade rather than a compromise you should ignore. It will not look like a piece of coloured glass hanging in a border and it is not trying to. What it is is light when full, unbothered by being dropped on a patio slab, and cheap enough to keep a second hummingbird feeder going at the other end of the garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCleaning is where a large hummingbird feeder is usually lost, and this one is built round that problem. The reservoir has a wide fluted mouth, so a bottle brush goes straight down it and reaches the walls. Under it, the base twists apart into two pieces, which opens up every surface the nectar touches — the underside of the ports, the inside of the dish, the channel the sealing ring sits in. There is no sealed cavity and no corner you have to hope about.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat sealing ring is what seats the reservoir into the base when you screw the two together. Get it flat in its channel and turn firmly before you invert the hummingbird feeder, and let the vacuum settle for a moment before you hang it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe maker publishes no height or width for this hummingbird feeder, so we will not quote one. What is published is 32 fl oz, ten ports and a circular perch. Full, it is heavy — hang it from its S-hook on something that would hold a bag of shopping rather than on a thin twig, and put it where you can see the whole ring from a window.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTen Ports, All The Way Round\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Base Twists Apart\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e32 oz\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHang It High And Clear\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Winslow Lane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43309945323597,"sku":"WL-HUMM10PT","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/4445\/6781\/files\/9a64367abea64084dfd491891a67eaf5.png?v=1785012799"},{"product_id":"hummingbird-feeder-in-hand-blown-firework-glass-32-oz-ant-moat-and-brush-included","title":"Hummingbird Feeder In Hand-Blown Firework Glass - 32 oz, Ant Moat And Brush Included","description":"\u003cp\u003eHold the hummingbird feeder up to the light before you hang it. The red runs through with orange and the streaks climb out of the narrow foot like something going off, and because the glass was blown by hand rather than pressed in a mould, the pattern on the one that arrives is not the pattern on anybody else’s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat is the argument for this hummingbird feeder in one sentence, and everything else is it doing its job properly. Thirty-two fluid ounces sit in that glass. The base is a brushed silver dish rather than plastic, with red flower ports set into it and a thin curved wire springing out beside each one for the birds to stand on. Hummingbirds hover when they have to and sit when they can, and a sitting bird stays long enough that you actually get to look at it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt stands 9.1 inches tall and 5.1 across, with a 2-inch base — a substantial hummingbird feeder without being the huge reservoir kind. Which brings the honest note: thirty-two ounces is a lot of nectar to get through in a few days, and nectar goes cloudy in warm weather in about that long. If your garden is quiet, fill the hummingbird feeder half full and change it on the same schedule you would use for a small one. The size is there for when the birds arrive, not instead of changing it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCleaning is the part most large feeders get wrong, and this hummingbird feeder comes with the answer in the box. The reservoir has a wide mouth, and a slim long-handled brush is included — which sounds like a small thing until you have tried to scrub the inside of a bottle with a cloth on the end of a spoon. The silver dish lifts off the glass, so the ports and the underside of the base wash separately.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn ant moat comes with it, along with a metal hook and a cotton lanyard. Fill the moat with water and hang it on the line above the hummingbird feeder; ants coming down the wire reach the water and stop. It wants topping up — in hot weather the water goes before the nectar does.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat the ports do not have is guards. There is no mesh and nothing set inside them, so the hummingbird feeder is not doing anything about wasps beyond keeping the nectar below the surface rather than open at the top. If stinging insects are a real problem where you are, buy one with guarded ports instead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHang it on the hook or the lanyard, on a branch, a bracket or a shepherd’s hook, somewhere the low sun can get behind the glass in the morning or the evening. That is when a hummingbird feeder like this one earns its price.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEvery One Comes Out Different\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Base Comes Off In Your Hand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThirty-Two Ounces\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Brush Comes With It\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Winslow Lane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43309945356365,"sku":"WL-HUMMFIRE","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/4445\/6781\/files\/28eea227e1aa31441ca4211006a4afd6.png?v=1785012833"},{"product_id":"solar-hummingbird-feeder-that-lights-up-at-night-49-oz-hand-blown-glass-7-ports","title":"Solar Hummingbird Feeder That Lights Up At Night - 49 oz Hand-Blown Glass, 7 Ports","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt about nine on a summer evening the birds have gone and most feeders become an object you stop noticing. This hummingbird feeder turns itself on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA small solar panel is set into the top of the black cap. It charges through the day, and when the light drops the lamp inside comes on and lights the hand-blown glass from within, cycling slowly through colours until the charge runs out. Nothing to plug in, no switch, no batteries to buy — it is the same trick as a garden path light, applied to a hummingbird feeder you already wanted hanging there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne thing to be straight about: the maker cannot decide how many colours it makes. The title says seven; the maker’s own diagram is headed six and shows six. We have gone with the lower published figure, six, because that is the one we can point at. If a seventh turns up, consider it a bonus rather than something we sold you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy day it goes back to being a large hummingbird feeder, and a good one. Forty-nine fluid ounces — the biggest in this range — in hand-blown teal glass flecked with red, orange and green, standing 10.3 inches tall and 7 across. Seven flower ports are set into the black metal plate under the hummingbird feeder, and one continuous perch ring runs right round the outside of it, so birds land wherever they arrive and walk to whichever port is free.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe size cuts both ways and you should hear the other side. Forty-nine ounces is a great deal of nectar to work through before it turns, and in warm weather sugar water goes cloudy in a few days regardless. Fill this hummingbird feeder right up when you have a crowd; the rest of the year, put a third of it in and change it on the same schedule.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe black cap on this hummingbird feeder is doing more than holding the panel. It is a wide petal-shaped cover that overhangs the ports, so rain lands on it and runs off the outside instead of into the nectar, and it shades the sugar water from direct sun through the afternoon. Underneath, a rubber ring seats the glass into the base when you screw the two together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn ant moat and a cleaning brush both come in the box. Fill the moat with water and hang it on the line above the feeder; ants come down the wire, reach it and stop. The ports themselves have no guards in them — nothing is set inside them — so this hummingbird feeder is not doing anything about wasps beyond keeping the nectar below the surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilling the hummingbird feeder is a straight pour into a wide mouth, and the base separates from the glass for washing, with the brush included for the inside. 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