Hummingbird Feeder, Glass Bottle Bird Feeders, 5 Feeding Ports, 10-Ounce Nectar Capacity

I love hummingbirds, I love being able to offer them a place to feed, I absolutely hate having to clean out hummingbird feeders.What drew me to this particular feeder is that the entirety of the feeder is clear (other than the flowers and the hook). I can see how much nectar remains, even in the feeding reservoir - a light tap of my fingertip, and it's obvious whether there's a half inch of nectar left, or an entire inch. Clear also means I can see if anything other than nectar inside - mold growth, ants having met their doom, whatever. I can bring it in to clean as soon as an issue arises, so long as I'm remembering to check.This is easy to clean, easy to disassemble. I've been using two for 6 months, and my only concern so far has been that every set I purchase, the clear plastic bottom piece has cracks. The cracks don't seem to be a problem - nothing's started growing in them, there's no leaking, they're not getting any bigger, but there are definitely cracks. I've decided I'm okay with it; I live in the Sonoran Desert, the heat does a number on plastics so I'll be replacing these more often anyway, but we're doing great so far.The feeding apertures are pretty large; we haven't encountered any issues with wasps or bees, but we do have a woodpecker that comes for a visit regularly, looks ridiculous, but isn't often enough to deter the hummingbirds. I do have an issue with ants - just because they're ants, and once they figure out how to reach this feeder, they want to take advantage (they only understood how to reach one of my two feeders, until a week ago - it took them about 5 months to figure out the second). I wound up purchasing an ant-trap 3-pack, which came with blue flower shaped cups, hooks, and 3 "mascara wand" style cleaning brushes which I've found work terrifically well with cleaning this feeder's apertures (the only part of this feeder that does grow anything; it's minor, but the little brush takes care of it quickly - a smallish straw brush would work as well, though I suspect pipe cleaners would be too small unless braided or on the larger side to begin with). Have a bottle brush for the glass reservoir, works fine, haven't had any mold issues with it so far but continue to use the brush to make sure there's no nectar residue left behind.Because I have two of these feeders up, I make 24oz nectar at a time and split it between the two, and have perhaps two teaspoons of nectar remaining. In my neighborhood, they're lasting about a week. I only ever find foreign material in them when the ants make their way in, so I've a squeeze bottle and need to refill my blue ant-trap flower cups once a day. The bit of this feeder that the metal hook latches into is not an ant trap despite its shape, or else it's so shallow that it evaporates within a couple of hours due to my region.EDIT: Time to replace my old ones again. I wound up having to snap off the landing spots for the hummingbirds. The hummingbird sizes we get vary so only a few can take advantage of the landing spot, and the woodpeckers used them to clutch the feeders more securely. The flowers pop out more easily than they used to, so the woodpeckers pull them off, throw them on the ground, and go to town in the larger holes (contaminating the nectar faster, and allowing more airborne stuff in until I find the flowers and replace them). The only improvement I can imagine is making the flowers fit MUCH more securely than they do to begin with - sometimes they'll pop out with barely a brush of my fingers.

Great glass feeder. Easy to change and clean. My hummers love it. I fill it about half way so it doesn't spoil and change every 3 days or so.

Update: My hummingbirds really prefer drinking from this feeder. Unfortunately, bees also like feeding from the feeder as well. The ports holes are too wide so bees can stick their heads in the ports and drink the nector. I would not mind letting bees share the nector but bees are agressive and they chased away my humming birds. I've tried replacing the flowers on the ports but that's not easy to do. The port holes are too big for replacement flowers with bee guard.My birds are very picky and would not drink from the fancy hand blown glass feeder. I swapped them out for this one and they go through a bottle every 2 days.update:I've tried many feeders (fancy colorful ones included) and have decided that this feeder is the best in the way of easy to clean and attracks the most hummingbirds. I have currently have 4 of these feeders and ordered the 5th because the bird population is increasing. I'll come back for the 6th if even more birds show up.

Do not buy this hummingbird feeder, it is horrible! It leaks liquid through the bottom because it is not sealed well at all and the design for the inside seal is horrible, actually the whole plastic part is just junk, and the holes in the flowers are much to large allowing bugs to easily get into the liquid.

Easy to assemble. However, the directions say the parts are "brown" instead of "red."

Very nice. Easy to clean and fill

Bueno

This is now the second one I bought. I liked the other one so much because it is easy to clean and doesn’t have too much in it to go bad. I just switched them out every day as needed. I wanted another one to replace a plastic one which was so faded in the AZ heat that it couldn’t be healthy for the birds.My only suggestion is to make sure that the bottom section is tight enough. We have Gila woodpeckers that also love the nectar as well as Hooded Orioles which are much larger than my Hummers. When they push off, they could unscrew the bottom if it isn’t tight enough It hasn’t happened yet to me, but I found it very close to coming apart once. Just sayin’.