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Deluxe Solar Sipper - Wild Bird Watering Station / Birdfeeder Water Accessory
List Price: $29.95
Amazon Price: $29.95
Average Customer Rating:  (3 reviews)
Editorial Review: The Deluxe Solar Sipper from Happy Bird Corporation is the best product for clean, fresh drinking water for wild birds on the market today. This water station does it all. Unlike a birdbath, it covers the water to keep it clean. It insulates to keep water cooler in the summer and warmer in winter. It heats with a unique solar design against winter ice.Wild bird Deluxe Solar Sipper includes berry red footed base and solar back top. Holds 1 quartWildBird Magazine:"In many cases, winter water proves to be as popular as foods put out in feeders to attract a variety of birds. The trick is to keep the water from freezing; open water is a rare commodity in winter's freezing temperatures in northern climes. The Solar Sipper is one of those ingenious inventions that make you want to slap your forehead and ask, 'Why didn't I think of that?' It requires not electricity or extension cords. It is absolutely safe, and it provides fresh water in areas where they may be no potable water." Sinc...
Customer Reviews:
0 of 0 found this review helpful:
 Our birds LOVE to drink from the Solar Sipper!, 2007-11-24
We bought one of these about 4 years ago, and it's been a huge hit with our birds. They absolutely love it! More than the regular bird bath, in fact. We put the SolarSipper on our deck, on a table, and it attracted a wide audience of birds almost immediately. The squirrels like it, too. (Maybe a little TOO much -- they chewed a bigger hole in the top last week, and then knocked the whole thing over and broke it. We are having our worst drought in history here in the SE US, though, so I guess that's what made the squirrels so thirsty!)
One thing: This WILL freeze eventually, but it does not freeze as quickly as the regular bird bath does. And another plus is that the mosquitoes do not lay eggs in the SolarSipper, whereas they do lay them in the regular bird bath, so the SolarSipper doesn't have to be emptied as often as the bird bath does.
All in all, a great product. We'll be buying a replacement for the one the squirrels broke.
1 of 1 found this review helpful:
 Setllar?, 2007-03-26
Don't expect stellar results....Not only does it freeze but the birds never did figure out what it was for
9 of 9 found this review helpful:
Great concept - poor design, 2007-02-14
I researched the Solar Sipper well before buying one and after all the glowing reviews, ordered 4. 2 were for myself and 2 to give as gifts. However, upon receiveing them, I discovered a major problem. The lid is very difficult to remove, and even MORE difficult to put back on, once it has water in it. I certainly would not givethese as gifts if they are this hard to put the lids on. Certainly, anyone with hand problems or diminished strength will have problems for sure.
After fighting with my two Sipper baths several times and spilling a whole bath worth of water on myself more than once, I called the company I had ordered from and discovered their return policy to be so restricitve that I called the manufacturer myself. The manufacturer, Happy Bird Corp., was wonderful and gave me not only some instructions about how to possibly cure the problem, but also said they would refund me the total amount of my purchase, less shipping of course, if I still had issues with it and to just skip the lousy online retailer I bought them from.
So, here is the little trick they told me, though I have yet to try it. They said there is a little burr of plastic around the inside edge of the outer container were the lid snaps in. I am to take a knife and scrap off some of the burred edge and see if that helps. They said others have had this problem too and this has proven to help. I shall see. I'll write an update after giving this a try.
UPDATE: The scrapping trick did help! Will be doing this too all of them, including the ones I plan to give as gifts.
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