Birdbuddy Hummingbird vs Birdfy Hummee

These two are not competing on the same axis, which makes this a more interesting comparison than most. Birdbuddy has brought better optics to a single lens. Birdfy has accepted ordinary optics and pointed two of them at the problem. Both are defensible.

The non-solar trim, which sounds like a small thing and is not. Hummingbird feeders hang on porches and under eaves, and a solar roof in those positions collects almost nothing. Birdbuddy is the only maker here selling a deliberate shaded-site version of its hummingbird feeder, and for a large fraction of buyers that is the single most useful difference on this page.

Birdbuddy also carries the better published optics across its range - it is the only maker in the whole category publishing a sensor dimension for its seed feeder line, and the same design thinking applies here. If your feeder is quiet and the birds use one port, one good lens beats two ordinary ones.

Coverage, on a feeder that needs it. If yours has four ports and gets steady traffic, a single fixed lens is missing visits continuously - not occasionally. The second angle is the difference between recording your hummingbirds and recording the ones that happened to use the near side.

And if you already run a Birdfy seed feeder, this joins the same app rather than adding a second one to your phone. That is worth more than it sounds after a few months.

Freeze the wings, at any resolution, on any number of lenses. And identify similar female hummingbirds reliably - a hard problem for human birders, let alone a fixed camera at a port. The identification guide explains why the species-count numbers are not the reassurance they look like.

Go and look at your existing hummingbird feeder. If birds consistently use one or two ports on the side facing the house, buy the Birdbuddy - and buy the non-solar trim unless it hangs in open sun. If they use all of it and arrive from every direction, buy the Hummee. If you do not yet have a hummingbird feeder, get an ordinary one first and answer the question properly - the roundup will still be here.