Perky-Pet 203CPBN-2 Glass Hummingbird Feeders for Outdoors with Perches, Ant Moat, Bee Guards – Pack of 2

High quality, easy to clean, loved by hummers
I’ve been buying this brand of feeder for a long time, and it is still high quality. The mouth of the bottle is wide enough to clean thoroughly. The materials seem robust and are built well. I’ve owned a lot of different styles of feeders over the years and for some reason I’ve had the most birds come to this style vs. others. They love the footrest’s that allow them to stand a take a breather; other styles don’t have these. Even after 10 years of being out in the sun, rain, wind, etc the Perky-Pet brand is still the best in my opinion.

Drip, drip, drip!
I bought 2 feeders. I really liked the clear glass jar, and the bee gaurds (which came already in the flowers), and the built in ant moat in the top section. The problem with the ant moat though is the little bit of water it holds leaks out quickly, due to the design of the top section. So, I just stopped filling that up.There is a small S hook that comes with the feeder too. You might not really need that though. I attached some spare wire, I had leftover from another project, to the S hook, and then the S hook to the lid’s built in hook, and hung them up. Really easy.I removed the packet of included nectar and threw it away. You can use it if you want, but personally, I don’t like the ingredients in it. I just use sugar water in a ratio of 1 part PLAIN WHITE SUGAR to 4 parts water. I boiled the water in a steel pot, added the sugar, continued to boil it for 2 minutes until the sugar was completely dissolved. Let that cool to room temperature, before you fill up the jar(s)! I actually made enough nectar for two weeks and stored the remainder in the fridge, in an air-tight jug.Once you fill the feeder jar, you screw on the flower section snuggly, but not too snug since you don’t want to crack the plastic, and flip it over. It’s suppose to create a vacuum seal to prevent dripping, but that didn’t happen for me. I think these need a rubber o-ring to help them seal correctly. I don’t know why, but they drip all day long.The clear glass jar makes it easy to tell if there’s mold growing inside, but since I have been changing the sugar water every 3 days (filing them up daily), and washing the feeder parts every 6th day, I’ve seen no mold growth. If you see the nectar looking cloudy, dump the nectar out in a sink, wash the jar and bottom section in hot soap water (ONLY use regular dish soap), rinse all parts several times before refilling! It got pretty hot here one day this past week (91F in Boulder, CO), so I changed the sugar water the the night, just to be sure it was fresh, even though I had just washed and filled mine the day before. My feeders hang from my front porch, which faces west, but are shaded most of the day by either the porch or the big tree in my yard. Also, it’s been unseasonably cool here so far this spring. I love that and so do the birds.I really wanted to like these feeders, but both of mine have been drip, drip, dripping on my front porch deck and railing. Every day, I have to go out and wash off the nectar from the railing and the deck. I don’t want the wasps and ants to make a habit of finding these nectar puddles. I wouldn’t mind the bees doing this, but I have far more wasps around my house than bees – the bees prefer the plants for feeding on. So, I started putting pans on the railing under the feeders to catch the drippings. That worked fine, until the wind blew the pans off the railing. So, I had to take down the feeders. Sorry little hummingbirds!To stop the dripping, I followed the advice another person gave about making sure the bee guards were turned so the hinge of these are at the top, inside each flower, but that didn’t stop the leaking. I looked carefully and saw mine were leaking from the stems and the flowers; so, I bought some silicone caulk to seal up the drips from the stems, during it only non one feeder, to see if that would help. Sure enough, the leaking stopped from the stems, but the flowers were still leaking. I was loosing at least 1/8 of the nectar daily from the feeder, due to the dripping. I was afraid the silicone caulk would not allow me to remove the flowers from the stems, but today I checked that, and it seems the caulk was a failure after all. It didn’t seal the flowers to the stem. Maybe I didn’t apply it correctly. Will try it again, this time coating more of the flower stem to the other stem they slid onto.6/2/15 UPDATE:I’ve contacted both customer service departments for the seller, and the manufacturer, to discuss the problems with my feeders. I first spoke to the manufacturer who said if the feeders are leaking than the they didn’t create a proper seal. I was to check and make sure I had screwed the bottom sections (the part with the stems and flowers) on tightly, but not to the point of cracking it. They also suggested trying it with just water first, so as not to waste the nectar. I said I don’t use the nectar that was included, since it has unnecessary ingredients that I don’t want to give the birds. I don’t believe those are safe ingredients. So, I did the water test and they are leaking still. Then they asked me to contact the seller for replacement feeders.The seller said the manufacturer is the one that has to replace them. What a run around! I called the manufacturer back and they said to emailed them a copy of my receipt from Amazon, as proof of purchase. I’m still waiting for the replacements. Will update again after trying the new ones out, but I’ve my doubts the new ones will be any better.

Nice Feeders!
I love the look and feel of these hummingbird feeders and my hummingbirds love them, too. The glass reservoir is more substantial and durable than plastic options, unlikely to degrade under exposure to the sun (the plastic portions do, indeed, fade noticeably but are still holding up well). My only criticism is with a design that allows to nectar to drip on occasion, causing waste and a mess of sticky residue, regardless of placement. Regardless, it was a great purchase and I would recommend and buy again.

Muy bueno

Excelente calidad

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