Lantern Hummingbird Feeder, 18 oz.

I have had three feeders in my backyard since three years ago. I have had another Perky-Pet feeder that looked like a light-bulb plugged into a pot, and then the Perky-Pet Four-Flowers pinch waist, and that one never EVER saw many hummers. What people say about the looks of the feeder is very important, and in my experience, the less fancy the feeder the better. This feeder, though it has a junky look and no perches, attracted a Anna's Hummer to it within 24 hours. I put it on the post me and my dad made for it after school, and in the morning whenI was eating Honey-Nut Cheerios, I saw a female Anna's come almost straight to the feeder, stopping once for a sip at a Chinese Bell. The thing is crazy easy to disassemble and clean, and you really don't need a brush, we prefer rags of course fabric. This all happened today, and I think that some of the reason COULD BE because we tied a red-ribbon; a old-school trick ;-). I took the ribbon off five minutes ago, after school and...Read more

This feeder lets the humming birds get the nectar without the bigger birds sitting on the rim and chasing the hummers away.

Here is my updated review.-------

I still like this hummingbird feeder because it is so cheap and it does attract hummingbirds, but I have discovered that the corners of the plastic bottle are difficult to clean and I found two small black mold spots growing in two different corners. I had to clean it with a very long, thin bottle cleaner to reach the spots. It wasn't easy to reach them. I don't like the square design of the bottle.

If you want something easy to clean, look for a round feeder. A bottle brush can easily clean a round bottle, but not a square bottle, with ridges.

I took away one of this review's stars because of this issue.

-----------------------------------This was my original review------------------

I bought this at Home Depot. I wanted something cheap. The sun's u.v. rays destroy everything around here after about a year or so anyways, so I wanted something I could just use for a year or two and then...Read more