{"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","url":"https:\/\/www.winslowlane.com\/products\/hummingbird-feeder-in-diamond-cut-red-glass-16-oz-4-metal-ports-and-a-full-circle-perch","provider":"Winslow Lane","version":"1.0","type":"link"}