Hummingbird Feeder In Diamond-Cut Red Glass

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A 16 oz hummingbird feeder in diamond-cut red glass, with four metal ports and one perch ring running the whole way round the base.

Four Ports, One Perch Ring A Mouth You Can Get A Brush Into Somewhere You Actually Sit Everything Happens At The Base

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A 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.

That 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.

The 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.

Ants 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.

The 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.

It 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.

Cleaning 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.

Four Ports, One Perch Ring
A Mouth You Can Get A Brush Into
Somewhere You Actually Sit
Everything Happens At The Base

One size, nothing to choose — what matters is where it goes and how often you look after it.

Capacity – 16 fl oz of nectar
Size – 9.5 inches tall including the hanger, 6 inches across
Ports – four pressed-metal flower ports, with no guards in them
Perch – one metal ring right round the base
Ant moat – a separate cup on its own S-hook, hung above it
Cleaning – the base unscrews from the bottle; hand wash only

Keep water in the moat whenever there is nectar in the bottle. Water goes down faster than nectar in a hot week, and a dry moat stops nothing.

Type: hanging glass hummingbird feeder
Capacity: 16 fl oz of nectar
Size: 9.5 in tall x 6 in across
Bottle: diamond-cut red glass, wide screw-thread mouth
Ports: 4 pressed-metal flower ports; no guards fitted
Perch: one continuous metal ring around the base
Ant moat: a separate cup with its own S-hook, hung above the feeder
Base: metal plate with a gasket where the glass seats
Mounting: hangs from the wire handle
Cleaning: the base unscrews; hand wash only, not dishwasher safe

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Four ports for the birds. A ring to sit on.

THE FOUR PARTS

Four Ports, One Perch Ring

Four pressed-metal flower ports sit in a metal base plate, and one continuous wire ring runs right round the outside of it. A bird lands anywhere on that ring and walks to the port it wants. The small red cup on its own hook is the ant moat, and it hangs on the line above rather than sitting on the feeder.

Four Ports, One Perch Ring
Four pressed-metal flower ports sit in a metal base plate, and one continuous wire ring runs right round the outside of it. A bird lands anywhere on that ring and walks to the port it wants. The small red cup on its own hook is the ant moat, and it hangs on the line above rather than sitting on the feeder.

TWO MINUTES

A Mouth You Can Get A Brush Into

The base unscrews from the bottle and the glass opens wide enough to take a bottle brush, so washing it is a straight job rather than a fiddle with cotton buds. Hand wash in hot water — nothing on this one belongs in a dishwasher.

A Mouth You Can Get A Brush Into
The base unscrews from the bottle and the glass opens wide enough to take a bottle brush, so washing it is a straight job rather than a fiddle with cotton buds. Hand wash in hot water — nothing on this one belongs in a dishwasher.

PUT IT ANYWHERE

Somewhere You Actually Sit

One wire handle, so it goes on a branch, a fence bracket, a balcony rail or a porch beam. Leave a little clear air on every side so birds can come in from any direction, and pick the window you actually sit at rather than the far end of the garden.

Somewhere You Actually Sit
One wire handle, so it goes on a branch, a fence bracket, a balcony rail or a porch beam. Leave a little clear air on every side so birds can come in from any direction, and pick the window you actually sit at rather than the far end of the garden.

WHERE IT ALL HAPPENS

Everything Happens At The Base

The metal plate carries the ports, the perch ring and the seat the glass screws down onto, with a gasket in that joint. It is the part that does the work and the part you take apart, which is why none of it is glued.

Everything Happens At The Base
The metal plate carries the ports, the perch ring and the seat the glass screws down onto, with a gasket in that joint. It is the part that does the work and the part you take apart, which is why none of it is glued.

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Hang it by a window. Give it a week.

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Four Ports, One Perch Ring

Four pressed-metal flower ports sit in a metal base plate, and one continuous wire ring runs right round the outside of it.

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A Mouth You Can Get A Brush Into

The base unscrews from the bottle and the glass opens wide enough to take a bottle brush, so washing it is a straight job rather than a fiddle with cotton buds.

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Somewhere You Actually Sit

One wire handle, so it goes on a branch, a fence bracket, a balcony rail or a porch beam.

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Everything Happens At The Base

The metal plate carries the ports, the perch ring and the seat the glass screws down onto, with a gasket in that joint.

How we compare.

What a metal-port glass feeder with a full perch ring does that a plain one does not.

Ours

A plastic saucer feeder

A small bottle feeder

One perch ring right round the base

Pressed-metal flower ports, not plastic

Glass bottle rather than plastic

Ant moat cup and hook included

Base unscrews for washing

Mouth wide enough for a bottle brush

Frequently asked
questions.

The questions people actually ask before buying one.

No, and we would rather say so plainly. The four ports are small pressed-metal openings with nothing set inside them. The nectar sits below the surface rather than at the top of an open hole, which makes it less interesting to wasps than a wide saucer is — but if stinging insects are a real problem where you live, buy a feeder with guards in the ports instead.

It is a separate red cup with its own S-hook. Put it on the line between your hook and the feeder’s handle and fill it with water; ants coming down the wire reach the water and stop. Top it up whenever you check the nectar, because in hot weather the water goes before the nectar does.

Not from indoors. The glass is deep red, which is what makes it look the way it does, and dark coloured glass does not show a liquid line. You lift it to check. If reading the level at a glance is what you want, a clear-glass feeder is the better buy.

16 fl oz, at 9.5 inches tall including the hanger and 6 inches across. Allow a little clearance below whatever you hang it from.

Four ports, and the perch is one ring right round the base rather than four separate loops, so birds spread out on it instead of queuing at a fixed spot. In practice one bird often tries to run the whole feeder off anyway — that is hummingbirds, not the feeder.

Unscrew the base off the bottle, take the ports out of the base, and wash everything by hand in hot water with a bottle brush. Rinse well and let it dry before refilling. Hand wash only. In warm weather do that every few days, at the same time you change the nectar.

From the wire handle — a low branch, a wall bracket, a shepherd’s hook in a border or a balcony rail all work, with the ant moat hooked in above. Leave clear air around it so birds can approach from any side, and hang it near flowering plants so they find it faster.

Free U.S. shipping and a 30-day return window. Hang it, give it a week or two, and send it back if it is not what you pictured.