The 8 Best Hummingbird Feeders of 2026

Ten ounces is about two days of nectar once a few birds know where you live, and that is the entire argument for this feeder. A bottle you empty and refill every other evening never sits in the sun going sour, and in a hot climate that matters more than capacity does.

The bottle is glass, the base is plastic, and they come apart with a twist. It is hand wash only — no dishwasher — which is less of a chore than it sounds, because the mouth is wide enough for a brush and the base is a shallow dish with nothing hidden behind the four ports.

The birds use the perches, which is what makes this one pleasant to watch from a kitchen window: some hover, some land and take their time. The built-in moat kept ants off ours for as long as we remembered to top it up, and it takes about ten seconds with a watering can.

Four feeding ports, and every one of them is metal. That sounds like a small thing until a plastic flower has gone chalky and dull on you in the sun — the metal flowers here hold their shape, wipe clean, and still read as flowers up close rather than molded plastic.

It is the glass feeder we point to when someone wants glass without paying decor prices. A gasketed base, a 16-ounce bottle, a wide mouth, and a 360-degree metal perch: the parts that actually matter, at about the same money as the four-port feeders still shipping plastic flowers.

Cleaning takes a minute. Bottle off, base apart, brush through the shoulder, rinse, refill. Nothing about the shape fights you, and the transparent glass means you can see the nectar level without lifting the feeder off the hook.

The red glass does the attracting on its own, which is why we keep coming back to this one for a flower bed where the feeder is part of the view. It reads as a garden object rather than a plastic jug, and it costs nothing extra for that.

The listing says 26 ounces. The bottle is closer to two cups, and that is the number to plan around — a couple of days of nectar for a small crowd rather than a week's supply. We would rather have the honest figure on the box, but the smaller volume is genuinely useful in July and August, when you are dumping and remaking the batch every other day anyway.

Buy it for the seal and the money instead. The gasketed screw base seats squarely, the bottle is mostly glass and metal with only a little plastic in the works, and it is the least expensive glass feeder in this guide. Nothing about the base has wept onto ours yet, which is the thing that ruins a cheap feeder.

Five metal ports sit around a 360-degree perch ring, so birds can work their way around instead of queueing at one hole. The mouth is wide enough to take a brush, and the bottle comes off in one motion when you refill.

It also looks good, which matters more than people admit for something hanging at eye level all season. The retro shape and brilliant red read nicely against a flower bed, and the red does the work of attracting without anything added to the nectar.

This is the cheapest glass feeder in the group, and nothing about it announces that. Thick red glass, a wide mouth, five feeding ports, and a perch on the base for birds that would rather sit than hover.

The bottle unscrews from the base, both halves rinse clean, and the built-in moat on top does the ant work as long as it has water in it. Cleaning is the part that surprised us: nothing is tucked behind the ports, so a brush and a warm rinse finish the job.

For a first feeder, a gift, or a second hook out by the garage, this is the one we reach for. It is what we hand to people who are not sure they will keep feeding birds and do not want to find out the expensive way — and the birds treat it exactly like the feeders that cost more.

Two feeders in one box. That reads like a marketing trick until you hang one on each side of the house, which is the simplest way to keep a single territorial male from owning the whole yard.

The bottles are shatterproof plastic, and on an exposed hook — a pole off a deck, a shepherd's hook that catches the wind — that is the difference between a feeder and a pile of glass. The trade-off is honest plastic: it cannot go through the dishwasher and hot water will distort it, so wash both halves by hand.

The refill routine is what we like most. The wide mouth takes a bottle brush, the two-part base twists apart, and each feeder carries its own molded ant moat. At ten ounces apiece they are small — right for a couple of birds, wrong for a migration crowd — and the S-hook and loop rope come in the box, so both go up in a minute.

Thirty-two ounces and ten ports: this is the July feeder. A yard that hosted two hummingbirds in May is hosting a dozen by August, all of them arguing, and ten ports with a full circular perch is how you keep traffic moving instead of stacking up.

The fluted reservoir is wide enough to fill without a funnel and wide enough to get a brush into, and the patented two-part base twists apart completely for the mold that collects at the bottom. It is plastic, so a wind-driven swing into the porch post does not end it the way it would end a glass bottle.

What we keep coming back to is the perch ring. Birds land, sit, and stay, working around the ports instead of darting in for a sip, which is what earns this feeder a place over prettier ones with fewer seats. Made in the USA, and light enough to carry down with one hand when it is full.

Hand-blown glass, deep blue, small bubbles caught in the wall — this is the one that looks like it belongs in the garden instead of hanging over it. The color is in the glass rather than painted on the surface, so a season of sun does not take it off.

Underneath the looks it is a proper feeder: 22 ounces, five ports around a 360-degree perch, an ant moat hanging above it, and a wire hanger that wraps the bottle rather than clipping to the neck.

Hand-blown means thick, not armored. A cool bottle and hot syrup is the combination that cracks these, so let the batch come to room temperature before you fill, every time. The base threads can also work loose on the bottle, so check the seat before it goes back on the hook.

If the hook is sheltered and you want something worth looking at from the kitchen window, the extra money buys a genuinely handsome feeder that the birds work all day. If that hook swings in open wind, spend it on the plastic pair instead.