Years ago, I purchased the Ankway Solar Water Pump and it still perfoms as if new. I mistakenly bought a lookalike and was sadly disappointed that it was totaly unsatisfactory. That is why I search and found a second Ankway for by second birdbath.

Its pretty amazing for such an affordable product. Initially, the pump pumped water in min bursts, once i anchoreded it it functioned pretty smooth. Took a little trial and error but i got it to work. I included a video to demonstrate the potenial. My bird bath is a DIY I looked up, just a old dog bowl i had suspended by a tomato cage. Enjoy!

A great product works as described. Needs a little maintenance in the form of debris cleaning but nothing major. Adds a beautiful if not peaceful sound of trickling water to our backyard. So far has proven durable. The fact that ita solar powered is definitely a great selling point, once the sun hits it. It goes higher and higher. I would recommend this product to anyone.

I was surprised by the quality of this little solar powered water pump. It really does move some water! In fact, you better have a huge bird bath, or expect to refill it often, because this fountain can send a stream of water 20 inches high in bright sunlight. If there is a wind of any kind, the water gets blown outside of the bird bath. The extra water diffusers is a nice touch. I drilled a larger hole in one and it makes a nice solid stream of water that is so heavy it falls mostly straight back down, even with a light wind. My finches love this thing. It scares the cardinals for some reason, although I attribute that to the Cards just being really skittish by nature. To add to what others have already said...this device is not battery powered or supported in any way. It is strictly sun powered, and MUST be in direct, bright overhead sunlight to work at its maximum capacity. If you shadow it in any way, it stops pumping. If it is partly cloudy, it will work intermittently, and with much less force. A word to the wise, keep the inlet screen clear of debris as it can be clogged by vegetation and will ruin the pump. Ours has been running daily for the past two months with nothing more than just weekly removal of random grass clippings from the pump inlet screen. Well worth the 16 dollars!

Just as advertised! I have a smaller, classic concrete birdbath, so I didn't actually use any of the attachments that came with it. If you don't have anything on the nozzle it has a nice 2" bubbling flow that really attracts birds. The extra nozzle heads are great though, but this little pump has power! I was getting two foot water streams out of the birdbath when I tried out the other attachments.

I purchased this pump on June 19, 2017...i have used it probably 2 weeks, and it has stopped working totally. There is no movement at all from the pump in full sun. I am really disappointed... I just got my bird bath up...picked the most perfect place for it in full sun...went out today...no pump. Ankway...now what do i do?

Works really great in FULL sun. The least little bit of a shadow, however, and it stops abruptly. But the pump starts up again just as fast once the shadow passes. When I operated the pump for the first time it took a second then began shooting water up about 18-20", I was pleasantly surprised. I wasn't expecting that from this tiny little device. Totally easy to set up, heck there's really nothing to set up. Select the fountain head you want and place into the water – I played around with all of them til I found one that worked best for my bird bath. I could not use the suction cups on the bottom of the pump or the additional suction cup and fishing line provided to keep the fountain in place because my bird bath does not have a smooth surface. So I decided to "corral" the fountain with rocks. The birds like the rocks anyway, they stand on them and let the water fall over their bodies or drink directly from the fountain. In Arizona, I have to keep a close eye on water levels because it's so arid. I'm filling the bird bath up a few times during the day to keep the fountain from running dry. Overall very pleased.

Not only adorable, but anyone can have their own birdbath buy just placing this in your bowl, pot whatever. I unboxed this in the shade as to not wear out the motor since it turns on in the sun. Walked over and put it in our shallow Talavera birdbath. Not rocks to hold it down. Simply place and walk away. No, it does not work in the shade or during cloud cover, only direct sunshine. We live in the desert so no problem. Perfectly packed, quickly shipped and excellent instructions. Just buy it already!

It works much better than I expected. In fact in some respects it works too well. It took me a while to figure out how to use it in the bird bath as it was powerful enough to put the water more than a foot upwards. the wind would blow and the water sprayed over the edge so that it emptied the bath in a matter of minutes. I now use it with out the attachments and this way it's fine. I bought a deep tub and use the attachment in it and it makes a wonderful spray. The best part is the motor turns off if there is no water or th inlet gets clogged. I highly recommend this product.

Just plopped it into the bird bath and it started running right away. Only used it yesterday and have tried only one of the nozzles so far. The one negative to report at this moment is that it really sucks a lot of water. The nozzle I used shot the water up but a breeze blew the stream out of the bird bath so the water drained faster than I imagined. I will try the other nozzles to see if one sends the stream a little lower so it doesn't over shoot the bowl. If it was smaller I thought it would be fun for my cats/rabbits water bowl.