Aspects Hummzinger Ultra Hummingbird Feeder, 12-Ounce

This is a very easy to use, really easy to clean bird feeder. I would have given it a 5 start if it would have had some type of flower painted on the top plate where the bird would drink. Birds don't quite know what to do with it since they don't see a flower to use. They fly around and check it out but so far they have stop to feed.I will hand paint some sort of flowers on the top to try and get them to stop by.08/06/2016 UPDATE: Painted flowers on top using the hole as the center, now the birds love it! They perch on the ring and stay for a while until another runs each other off. I will get another one to have 2 for next season, and paint the flowers.

The best humming bird feeder ever made! Easy to clean, repels yellow jackets and honey bees. The birds can perch together and feed at same time. Can't rave enough about this feeder!

Have compared these two styles for past year. Both plastic. PRO's of zinger: right volume (most models are too big for our hummer population & frequency of cleaning) Easy to fill and put together. Best part: no nooks & crannies to hold the mold! Here in So Calif the mold seems tenacious. With classic 32 Bliss I have to use a toothbrush and STILL see spots I miss (after re-hanging it!) in the petal shaped receptacle areas. Perching bar is handy. CONS: small plastic tubes that go on inside of holes get lost easily. Not sure they're essential? Have lost most of them. CONCLUSION: this is the best plastic model in terms of ease use, since keeping up feeders can be a big job---- mine develop mold before day 6-7 so frequent emptying, cleaning, and refilling is a must.

After being disappointed with the complete and utter lack of any bird activity whatsoever with my , I had low hopes for the Hummzinger's ability to likewise attract any hummingbirds. To my surprise, today I found a female Anna's hanging out on branches on the trees on either side of the feeder and, a few minutes later, caught her perched on the Hummzinger and dipping her beak into it. So it does work! See my picture to see her sitting at it :DAs regards the other stuff, the Hummzinger is pretty much as foolproof as they come. It consists of three basic parts, the trough/bowl area, the lid, and the handle. The bottom trough holds 12 ounces of fluid (btw, the enclosed instructions tell you the appropriate mixture in case you aren't already aware) along its outer section. The inner center (think of them as separated like a donut) is separated by a thin plastic wall that holds water as an ant guard (more on that). The top, red part snaps onto the trough to hold it secure and, in this model, has four "flowers" and perches all around the outer edges. The Hummzinger also comes with nectar guards; for lack of a better word they are essentially little plastic nipples with holes in the center that fit on the underside of the flowers so that hummingbirds can still feed, but insects cannot. Finally, the handle has a hook on the top and can be screwed in and out of the center of the trough. Because this is a potential conduit for ants, the ant guard ensures that any ant that crawls down the handle has to go through the ant guard first to get to the outer rim where the "nectar" is...and subsequently drowns.The Hummzinger is super easy to put together and take apart, and is very easy to clean. Even when it is full of liquid it is not very heavy, so it can easily be hung from small tree branches as I have done in my yard. The instruction manual tells you how to put it together, where to place it, how to clean it, how to make nectar, etc. It is as foolproof as they come, and if you want to attract any nearby hummingbirds to your yard, look no further.Note: the instructions that come with the feeder tell you to mix one cup of sugar to four cups of water. Unless you want to store all of that in your fridge, that's way too much. This feeder has a capacity for 12 fluid oz. I typically brew up a mixture of 1/4 cup of sugar to one cup of water, which comes out to 8 fluid oz. by the time it's cool. Keep that in mind when you go to cook up your nectar solution.

After moving to a rural part of Washington state, we found we could no longer use the hummingbird feeder that had worked so well for us in our suburban backyard. The old feeder's holes were large enough to permit yellow jackets (YJs) to climb in and out of the feeder; and the old feeder was ceramic, so we couldn't easily detect if any of the YJs had died and fallen into the sugar solution. Because the YJs were able to feed, their numbers increased daily and they aggressively drove our hummingbirds away from the feeder, and us from our nearby chairs.Our new Aspects 367 Hummzinger Ultra Hummingbird Feeder remedied all these issues. The feeders' holes have small star-shaped guards that spread as the hummingbird pushes its beak through them. Before filling the feeder, we tested each opening with a toothpick to make sure they expanded freely. Within an hour of hanging the new feeder, our hummers had found it and were feeding happily. They never displayed even a slight aversion to the feeder; however, the feeder guards have completely stymied the efforts of the yellow jackets, so much so that they don't even buzz past it. Now, our hummers have the luxury of sitting and feeding for several minutes at a time. The feeder's clear underside also allows us to see the birds' tongues stirring up the sugar water as they drink.We highly recommend this feeder. We've found it to be far and away the easiest hummingbird feeder to clean, fill, hang, and view fluid levels. Our hummingbirds like it (see attached photo of one feeding) and we like what they like.

The media could not be loaded. I mounted this feeder on a pole. A better way is to use the optional hanger to prevent ants from entering the feeder. Overall, it works. Video was captured using a Panasonic camcorder. (Panasonic is making great cameras these days btw)

I have had this feeder for 9 months now and love it for the many, many hours of joy it has brought us. I highly recommend this feeder.The hummingbirds in this area (San Diego) love it so much that we have one or two on it all day, every day. One birdie has decided to make it his private nectar source and chases away all others! Sometimes we get up to 5 at a time, with 4 birds feeding at the ports and the extra one trying to get its beak in:). The finch fledglings we get seem to want to try feeding at this feeder, too. It's so funny watching them. I'm thinking of getting another of these hummingbird feeders soon.This is easy to clean, easy to take apart and put up (we have ours hanging from a shepher's hook tied to our urban balcony railing), and holds just enough for a few days' feed. The volume is important because if you leave the sugar solution out too long it may ferment. Be especially wary of tiny black specks on the underside of the red cover. That is fungus and dangerous for the birds. I clean with an old toothbrush and boiling water every 3 days, occasionally with white vinegar solution and hot water. No problems so far.Buy this one. It is a great one to start with, until your feeder gets popular!

This is the best feeder I have ever seen, and I've been through dozens of different designs. First of all, bees leave it alone. I had such a problem with bees and wasps this summer that I resorted to chemical sprays, and I NEVER use chemicals! Once I got rid of the stingers, I purchased two of these feeders for my hummers. We love them! The hard plastic looks like it will last for a hundred years. The snap-on top is a fooler, because it's so easy, and I keep thinking it isn't on tight, but that doesn't matter because the feeder is designed so that the top will not dislodge or fall even it it isn't on tight. The ant moat works. The hanger is solid, which makes for easy moving and manipulation, and the feeder stays on the hooks on my porch even in 30 mph wind. My hummers buzzed around and gave these new feeders funny looks for about an hour, but once they got the idea, they were sold. Cleaning is simple because everything is wide and flat, with no little crannies to collect mold. I will never buy any other kind of feeder.

This hummer feeder works by far better than the bottle or "artistic" ones. It is easier to clean - a HUGE factor since we are about feeding, not killing them! It doesn't drip onto your porch or patio, it is resistant to bees and ants. It won't shatter if dropped. It has the recipe for nectar right in the lid, so you can't lose it. Nectar should be made by you, easy-peasy, and brought to a boil before cooling. Make a big batch and then freeze in smaller 'servings' for convenience. Don't use food coloring. The thing I like the most is the perching of the birds. Since they can see in front of themselves, they will sit and feed. I hang my feeders on a hook made from a wire coat hanger. I cut to make a hook at the top for hanging, then at the bottom, using the existing shape of the wire, I form a small bend to hold the top of the feeder and then bend out the last of the wire to near horizontal to make a 5" perch for the birds. It looks like a capital letter L with a small dip at the bottom angle to secure the feeder hook. The birds love this little perch. They sit and feed, then sit on their wire "branch" and keep watch. I have given this feeder to several people and they all love it, too. It's the best!