Window Bird & Hummingbird Feeders

[val2525]

Has anyone here tried the window bird feeders or hummingbird feeders? You stick them on the outside of the window with suction cups:








I'm just wondering how well the suction cups stick when birds are on it.

[Desire]

Val - I've had the suction bird feeders and they stay on well.  But at our house, they didn't work out, we tried them at several locations. We have shrubbery around the perimeter of our house, and the squirrels were able to hop right up from the shrubs and cling to the screens (and rip them) to eat at the feeders. These are half-screens in the up or down position on double-hung windows. In our family room there is a wide wall-to-wall window and the outside has a ledge across it, but after a week or so the squirrels figured it out and were able to jump from the deck rails onto the ledge and get to the window feeder. But until the squirrels discovered the feeders, they worked well and we had many birds. On our pole feeders we have cylinder bullet-shaped squirrel baffles attached to the poles and the squirrels can't get past the baffles.

The middle of a sliding glass door would be the perfect spot, but our sliders are down on the sun porch and we really don't go down there to sit very often.

[val2525]

If I had an enclosed sun room, I'd be working there every day

THe office window has no shrubs under it but they do have screens. I wondered about the squirrels climbing the screens. Maybe I'll just get the hummingbird feeder. I don't think the sugar water would attract squirrels and the feeder would be far enough away from the patio that wasps wouldn't be an issue. Hmnnn.

[sunsetpainter]

We had some but it drove my dog nuts when the birds landed on them so we had to take them down.  I really thought he'd break the window.