Perky-Pet 8117-2 Square Antique Glass Bottle Hummingbird Feeder - 16 Ounces

Love my Cobalt Blue hummingbird feeder. The cobalt feeder is made much better than the starburst feeder! No rust!

The cobalt model holds 16 oz food.The perfect ratio of hummingbird food is 1 part white sugar to 4 water. Don't change the 1:4 ratio: too little sugar and they can starve, too much and they can get kidney disease. It is, apparently, perfectly healthy to give them sugar water... they have insane energy needs, and get supplemental nutrition elsewhere.To fill the 2-cup blue model to the brim you would use 1.75 cups water, and a half cup sugar MINUS a tablespoon of sugar taken out.First few times you're doing this,take a pyrex 2 cup measure, fill water to 1 ¾ cup line, dump it in an empty tea kettle to boil.Then take a half cup measure and fill to level with sugar, and take a tablespoon of sugar back out.Dump the sugar in the pyrex, and when water boils pour it over sugar, stir for a minute and it will all dissolve.Allow mixture to cool before pouring in bottle. (the bottle's blue coloring is a plastic coating inside bottle, they're almost all like that, don't melt it).At this point, I have a flock of hummingbirds, and have to fill a bottle every other day, so i've sped this up:measure 1 cup of water in pyrex, put it in kettle to boil.take a half cup measure and eyeball it being 7/8 full of sugar (with experience of having measured as above a couple times), dump it in pyrex.pour hot cup of water in, stir 'till dissolved... make up the rest of the 16 oz volume in pyrex with cold water, and it's cool enough to pour in bottle (you could wait 20 minutes before adding the cool water).The base of the feeder holds almost a half cup, so it's hard to tell when these are empty... the surest sign is when a bird dips it's bill for 1/10 second and doesn't try again at same hole... they may try a few of the holes then leave.To make sure birds always have food, i use two bottles in rotation... when one is almost empty i'll hang a full one next to it (leave the nearly empty bottle in the spot they like better). When I notice birds stop going to the empty one at all, I move the full one to the preferred spot, rinse and let dry the empty bottle and repeat the cycle.Do not over-tighten the base. it's better to have it a little loose on the bottle than to crack the plastic threads.Keeping the feeder's full and fresh is essential to getting a steady flow of birds. The first time we put this up, we left it out a long time... too long... Change out the food at least once a week (they say 3 days) while waiting for them to find it and start coming regularly.I'm in Arizona, and It's rare to go more than 10 minutes without seeing one feeding... And when there's one, that usually draws another trying to do a territorial display. Fun. I can get a crowd of up to 6 birds trying to get at the feeder at a time.FYI, I got my first feeder as a gift, then bought my second feeder here... the first had metal "flowers" the second had plastic. Both worked fine. The one purchased here also had a loose hanging bracket, I used some pliers to bend them just a bit. So construction quality isn't stellar, but the product is so inexpensive that it isn't worth "dinging" a star on an item that's working so well for me and my flock. [apparently the proper collective noun isn't settled... "a charm of hummingbirds" is the common answer, but bouquet, hover, glittering, shimmer, & tune are also offered; but they're so territorial it's hard to think of them collectively!]

This is very nice. Although I have not seen any actual hummingbirds at it yet. The blue glass has a very nice color.

Easy to clean and looks great. It’s sturdy. And the birds are all over it. Looks like last call at a night club

Birds seem to be ok, I will buy the cheaper feeders next time. The birds don't xare!

These are beautiful and look like little blue lanterns hanging in front of my house during the day. The hummingbirds empty them and I clean and refill them. I have some red ones in the back yard and they began rusting within a month. All four of these are still rust free after about six months. One has a slight crack in the glass, but that might have been due to a sudden temperature change. It still works and doesn't leak. Definitely need a bottle brush to get them really clean.

This hummingbird feeder is a beautiful blue color.. It is very sturdy.. I bought this feeder because the description said it was top filled. It is NOT...

I wanted to beautify my backyard with whimsical bottles of different colors - sort of like Alice in Wonderland...but I'm not so sure.The hummingbirds like the cheapo feeder and they ignore this one.ALTHOUGH, this one is nice, because it's designed such that it has some sort of vacuum...because the water doesn't squirt upward and I don't have to tilt it to remove air bubbles. The cheapo ones get air bubbles and I have to tilt them to get rid of the bubbles. I don't know how hummingbirds work but I wonder if they're the ones spitting air bubbles into the feeder in exchange for sugar water.I'll keep trying, but I haven't been clever enough to figure out how to get them to switch to this feeder.***update****I moved this feeder next to the other feeders...and the hummingbird checks it out now. It also hangs higher, because I'm not currently using the ant moat. I did see the hummingbird searching for this feeder in its last spot (it had found it yesterday but just looked at the flowers before flying away). However, the hummingbirds still go to the OTHER cheapo feeders first and then come to this one as a last resort.

Ojalá la base tuviera barandal para que reposen las aves, es el único detalle que le falta

los pajaros no se acercan, las flores no cumplen la funcion

The picture doesn't do it justice. This is gorgeous!

This feeder is gorgeous in the sun, and the hummingbirds seem to love it. The only downfall is flipping it right side up or back upside down to fill/refill.. it can get messy.

I’ve had several of these and they are pretty and the hummingbirds love them but the blue does chip off eventually bit by bit starting at the open end. You have to be very gentle washing the outside. I put one in the dishwasher once and all the blue came off, it appears to be like a shrink wrap or something. If you’re very careful the colour should last several years.