Biling Solar Bird Bath Fountain With 2.5W Pump and 800 mAh Battery Backup - Free Standing Water Feature for Garden, Pond, Pool, Outdoor

Fountain worked immediately after being in birdbath for 30 seconds. Continues to work even when some clouds pass over. Pros: I like it - the birds like it and it works. The four fountain spray heads are nice, but only one sprays in a downward pattern to keep water in bowl. Cons: Three spray heads spray out too far and too high - the wind blows all the water away over the side, pretty quickly. Suction cups on bottom are way too tiny and don't hold. I put rocks around the device to keep it in place and that works out ok, because it gives the birds a place to safely perch. All in all, it's ok. At least it works!Update: July 12, 2021. It quit working after just 4 months. I took it inside for the winter. Set it up and it worked for about one week - then nothing! Why of Why can't something made in China last longer than a monkey burp? I bought a different brand (Aesitlin) and it appears to work better than this Biling did - but will it last for more than a few months?

The fountain drifted to one side of the bath even after I adjusted the bath with a level several times. I didn't find that aesthetically pleasing so I tied a length of fishing line around a few large metal nuts at one end and around the cord connecting the battery pack to the pump at the other. This kept the fountain floating more or less in the center of the bath.A couple of the supplied nozzles created a pleasing shower of about 7 inches when in full summer sun, which it was for about 6 hrs a day. The shower slowed to a trickle pretty quickly after partial shade replaced full sun.I was fairly satisfied with that for the few weeks it worked. I kept the pump clean and was very careful handling it after I attached the fishing line to the power connector cable, but it's possible that stress caused the connection to break internally. The failure wasn't sudden though, more of a decline as if the battery was losing its ability to hold charge. Within a few weeks it produced something like a 3 inch shower, then just a trickle, then nothing. It lasted around 2 months.

It was ok out of the package. Started working right away. The spray is not as strong as shown in picture and as soon as it was shadowed by daylight it stops working so I was not able to enjoy in the early evening hours. It has been 2 weeks and it has stopped working completely. I tried the dark cloth for 5 min. and that worked... once. unhappy with this product. Will most likely send back for a replacement. If the new one works better I will update review.

I have been using the Biling solar birdbath fountain for a couple of weeks now and am generally satisfied with its operation. A couple of things to keep in mind: First, it took a day or two for it to settle down in its operation. The day after its first day of use it did not seem to restart in the morning. I had to go and "play" with it for a little while to get it to restart. As the meager instructions specify, you have to keep it completely in the dark for a couple of minutes, then expose it to the sun. The small pump motor should then automatically start, and you need to put it in the water to get it to start pumping. The pump motor will turn off after a couple of seconds so you have to be quick to get it in the water. Also, the pump makes very little noise or vibration so it is difficult to tell when it is on, so I had to play with it a few times before I got it in the water and pumping. Since its first day or two, the pump has started when sunlight starts without any intervention on my part. Next, the pump is almost too efficient. The birdbath I am using is small (only about 12 inches in diameter) and it has a 6 or 7 inch deeper area in the middle where the fountain unit would sit. However, when the fountain is pumping, it would pump out the water in the deeper area and would come to rest on the surrounding shallower part. The pump was so strong that it would create a suction that would clamp the outer diameter of the fountain down on the shallow part of the birdbath, with the result that it would pump out all the water in the middle and turn the motor off for lack of water. There were three tiny "legs" on the pump which presumably would keep the unit up off the floor of the birdbath enough to allow water to flow, but the "legs" weren't nearly tall enough. I removed the legs and glued three plastic bottle caps (using aquarium silicon cement) to the outer perimeter of the fountain unit to lift it far enough off the floor of the birdbath to keep the water flowing. Another thing I've observed is that the intake of the pump does require fairly frequent cleaning, perhaps every third day. I use an old tooth brush to scrape off the filter intake, and the pump has been operating smoothly. I wonder if these three items above, or perhaps a combination of them, has contributed to the several reviews here that have complained about the pumps operation. As I've said, once I was aware of the above, I've had no problems in the several weeks I've had the solar fountain so far. One last thing to keep in mind is that this is a small unit. If you're looking for something that would squirt water more than a few inches up in the air, this is not the unit for you. We live in an arid climate, and there is lots of evaporation and wind. I've been using the pump without any of its nozzles to cut down on the evaporation. Without any nozzles it shoots a solid column of water (maybe a quarter-inch in diameter) up about 2 to 3 inches above the outlet. On completely calm days I do sometimes put on the nozzle to give more of a spray, but I don't use it too long due to lots of evaporation. If there is any wind at all there is a great tendency for the spray to be blown beyond the edge of the birdbath, greatly increasing the water loss rate. We have had a couple of birds use the bird bath over the past several weeks (which is near a set of well-visited bird feeders) and believe the usage will increase.

With its easy installation and reliable performance, this fountain pump is a must-have for any bird lover or garden enthusiast

This is easy to install, it basically comes out together. You just have to choose a spout and push it on. The different spouts are nice cause you can have different water features when you change the spout. The problems are: 1)The tiny suction cups do not hold this in place at all. It stays for a couple minutes the floats around the bird bath causing half the water to shoot out of the birdbath when it floats near the sides. 2). the pump is pretty weak!!! It spouts water for a couple minutes then stops or significantly diminishes the height/force of the water. Mine is is a location where it has sun from sun up to sun down so it’s not a solar charging issue. It’s just an incredibly cheap pump. Unfortunately the cons are more important than the pros. You can’t have a good fountain without a good pump or if it keeps floating away.