ducbucln
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Not the best looking, but when the temperature outside reaches over 100 I either have to move my feeders to shade under the roof eves and have to use lots of precious water (we're on the fourth year of drought) to clean up the bird droppings daily or figure out a way to cover the glass bottles.
For the past five years the best thing I've found is to use a thick foam soda can insulator or a plastic juice container with the bottom cut off to fit over the top of the sugar water jar. Both still aren't perfect but they do help. It takes the hummers and orioles less than 30 seconds to get use to the additions to their feeders.
A good suggestion and most important is to not fill the bottles full of sugar water so you can clean and refill it more often depending on when you're able to do this.
For the past five years the best thing I've found is to use a thick foam soda can insulator or a plastic juice container with the bottom cut off to fit over the top of the sugar water jar. Both still aren't perfect but they do help. It takes the hummers and orioles less than 30 seconds to get use to the additions to their feeders.
A good suggestion and most important is to not fill the bottles full of sugar water so you can clean and refill it more often depending on when you're able to do this.