Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This is a great value feeder for some specific applications but not for everyone. I've fed hummingbirds in SC, NY, VA, OR, and CA, and with 10 nectar holes and 32 oz capacity this feeder would have been overkill in every location except CA. On the East Coast I never had more than a few birds, and in Oregon the same Anna's Hummingbirds that will mob the feeders in CA will perch near a feeder and drive all the other hummingbirds away. This feeder is very easy to clean and fill, though, so if you get big seasonal variations and wanted a feeder that could support the summer I guess you could just not fill the feeder so much in your slow season. I posted a picture from my mother's house in Butte County, CA. She gets year round hummingbirds which are not at all shy about sharing the feeder. She has about six of these feeders up since her birds will go through the 32 ounces in one feeder in under 2 hours. In the winter she gets high winds and rain and in the summer she gets very hot direct sun, and these feeders have been great through it all. The red has faded a little from when the feeders were new as you can see in my picture, but the birds still love them. A similar version of this feeder(3090) has yellow flowers instead of red. We also have some of those and the birds love them too, but the yellow plastic of the flower is a separate piece from the red plastic of the base which allows breakage/separation/mold growth and I've read the yellow attracts bees. We do get a few bees, but they aren't too bad and seem to be feeding off of spilled nectar rather than through the feeder holes. The hummingbirds don't mind the monochrome red version of the feeder, and since the molded red flowers are of one piece with the base I'd recommend this version of the feeder. Thoughts on the 1 Star reviews for this product: I suppose it is possible that there have been bad runs of this feeder, but since there are so many recent 5 star reviews that so closely reflect our years of experience with this feeder I am inclined to believe that a lot of people are not putting them together correctly. True, the top attachment part is not directly connected to the bottle but we have NEVER had one come apart, and we get very high winds in the winter which can swing these feeders around pretty violently. The bottom section is actually two pieces which fit together VERY snugly, and I suspect that a lot of folks aren't getting them back together correctly. The jar has a mouth about the size of a quart mayonnaise jar, and is very easy to screw into the base. Like a mayo jar, I suppose you could screw them together crooked and get nectar leakage but I'm not sure how you wouldn't notice that. EDIT: (October 2013) I just ordered a new 3055 feeder for our new house, and noticed for the first time on the bottom of the feeder "NOT DISHWASHER SAFE". Hmmmm, I wonder how many "the sun warped my feeder" and "my feeder is defective" reviewers have ran their feeder through the dishwasher....? I've had several personal experiences of an otherwise sturdy plastic item being badly damaged in one trip through the dishwasher, or even one trip in the bottom tray when they had weathered many trips through in the top tray. Dishwashers are no joke!