Superior Window Bird Feeder with Strong Suction Cups, 2 Way Mirror Film, Large Easy Clean Seed Tray, Outdoor Hanging Birdhouse for Wild Birds Like Cardinal & Bluebird. Great for Seniors & Indoor Cats

It took a little over a week for birds to find my feeder, but now I have a constant parade of birds all day! I've had starlings, sparrows, cardinals, blue jays, chickadees, and a bird I have never seen before, which turned out to be a ruby breasted grosbeak! I live in an apartment on the second floor and I don't have any outdoor space, but it's really fun to have a bit of nature right outside my kitchen window.The feeder seems really strong and well built with thick plastic. And the suction cups haven't budged an inch, even with 4 starlings fighting on it! I have it on the storm window and I have to move the window up and down to fill the feeder, but even with all of that, the suction cups are holding strong!The mirrored film makes it kind of hard to get clear pictures, but when you're just looking at them in person, it's no problem. And I didn't apply it very carefully, so there's lots of bubbles in it, which is my own fault. I do think it helps the birds hang out more, especially the smaller, more skittish ones. I sit, at most, 2 feet from the window doing work or eating, and the birds don't seem to mind me at all!

We seem to have misplaced the card Which reportedly has the instructions on how to use the “Mirrored” film, which I gather from others initiates somehow is applied to the (outside.) window pane. incredibly, the box which does not even have a picture of the completed productIs it a secret that can’t be revealed except to those who buy this particular feeder? So much for “silence and giving.”Revised Review:I am changing my 3 star review to 5, as the website has revealed the secret of the sticky side of the otherwise prosaic mylar sheet (apparently, a well established common knowledge to other homeowners, the existence of which somehow as eluded me for my 71 years). This miraculous property can be revealed by removing a transparent film, while tecnically, is not a one way mirror, but serves that purpose if a brighter light striking one side is reflected back and the darker side is transparent. Thus, voyuer night creatures (owls?) could peer into you lighted window, and watch you feeding, while you would not see be able to see them.Of course, indecision about the optimal placement and multiple abortive placements, has left me with a very wrinkled mylar sheet. Fortunately, the inexact placement seemed not matter an iota to the immediate assemblage of assorted small birds, who unceremoneously sat, chatted, and shat in the pile of sunflower and smaller seeds, as the indigenous tribe of marauding squirrels, no doubt oblivious to their role in Harmony of all living things in the universe, looked on hatefully, plotting another impossibly acrobatic scheme to loot the treasure, while simultaneously destroying it’s vessel, as has been their custom. (See photo #3)

We've had our window feeder mounted for several months now and really like it. It was easy to mount and the construction makes it easy to take down and put back up for cleaning. I wasn't sure the birds would come right up to the window like that, but they do. In fact, some species like to just sit in the feeder and eat. We have sunflower seeds in it and I can tell when they are there because they bang on the feeder to open the shells, thereby announcing their presence!We were concerned about how it would fare with the suction cups during the summer when the sun shines directly on our slider, so we moved it to another window without transferring the mirror backing. It is a window that pretty much always has the shade drawn so the birds do still come to it even without the mirror.I have only found one drawback to this feeder and that relates more to the type of seed. I find the birds leave the seed casings in the feeder, so it fills up with empty seed casings which get mixed in with the still good bird seed. I'm not sure why we don't have this problem with our other bird feeder, but we don't. So periodically we have to just dump out all the seed and start fresh. I'm not sure that there is any way this can be avoided with this type of feeder, but it anyone has a suggestion, we would welcome it.

I don't know why it took me so long to write a review on this product I purchased 2 years ago. But it's been 2 years and my cat, Linda, is still obsessed with this. She has a routine, every single day, for the past two years: She wakes me up, gets breakfast, then retreats to her window for hours of bird watching. She breaks up her day with a midday nap, then back to the window to keep watch over her bird feeder. I cannot express enough how many hours of enjoyment this has brought our family. Sure, the cat likes to watch the birds - but I like to watch my cat. She becomes so animated. This window bird feeder is well worth the money. It's durable enough to be going into it's third northern NY winter, and the suction is strong enough for the fattest bluejays - still using the original suction cups. I am very happy with this purchase and would recommend it to anyone.

I was looking for a window bird feeder to hang outside my bedroom window that would allow birds to feed without frightening them by movements from within. This bird feeder comes very close to fulfilling all that I ask of it.It attaches securely to the window glass with four suction cups. It comes with a 2-way mirror (the mylar sheet is mirrored on both sides, not just one) that I attached to the inside of the bird feeder (not to the window like they suggest) after cutting it down to size. This works very well in making the birds feel secure but reduces visibility (which is fine with me - the film can easily be taken off at any point). It has a removable tray so I can easily take it out of the feeder for a refill.One area of improvement I can see is the overhang. I'd have liked it to be a little longer to better help keep the seed dry in rain but this is no biggie.I've had it up about 3 weeks and only one bird has visited it so far - a female Summer Tanager overwintering in the south - and she's a regular. Eats seed and peanut butter that I put out for her.