{"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","url":"https:\/\/www.winslowlane.com\/products\/hummingbird-feeder-in-hand-blown-speckled-glass-24-oz-4-ports-and-a-ring-perch","provider":"Winslow Lane","version":"1.0","type":"link"}