Texas Gardening: at The Rouxcrew Ranch, 1 by rouxcrew

rouxcrew wrote:
I got mine at Lowes over the course of a few years but they don't have them any more. I did see them online at Home Depot and will head that way today in hopes of getting a couple more.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/t/203271255?catalogId=10053&langI...

I have a couple plastic ones that work okay, but I have in my mind that the glass is easier to sanitize. I also want a base and ports that come apart for cleaning. I don't worry about fancy bottles or odd shapes, they don't work here. I even bought three of the flat feeders that just have a hook hanging above the reservoir and have thrown them away because they don't hang straight from my chains and since only half or less of the port then have water, the birds don't like them. I need more than four ports per feeder to handle the swarms, but there is less fighting if there is still a little space. At the beginning of the season I use smaller feeders so that the water doesn't go bad before it is drunk, and switch to these quart sized now that the masses are here.
I also used to put them out in the yard but find that the birds like the ones in the shade of the porch, I can only imagine how hot the water gets in that glass under our brutal sun.