Lantern Hummingbird Feeder, 18 oz.

 (3 customer reviews)

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.

Will use this as a Christmas Gift and not be used until Summer of 2009.