All Weather Feeder 6 Quart

I have used this feeder for almost five years and I love it! I have tried a lot of feeders over the years and this one is the best. It is the only feeder that I don't have to worry about refilling or cleaning out every day or two and I can just enjoy watching the birds. Other feeders allow the seed to get wet and moldy, but all the seed stays dry in this feeder. It's large capacity means you only need to refill it about once a month. The design only allows the birds to take one seed at a time from a small crack, so seed isn't wasted like it can be with a platform type feeder. All sorts of birds feed from it- cardinals, red-wing blackbirds, goldfinches, chickadees, woodpeckers, etc. I've never seen starlings use this feeder. I think it took just a couple days for the birds to figure out how to use this. Just sprinkle some seeds on the bottom platform and they'll get the idea soon enough. New birds will watch and learn from the others to see how to get the seed.

This was my old review in spring 2009: "i tried this bird feeder for couple of weeks with and without the cage, birds still couldn't learn to feed from it. I am puzzled with the positive reviews here. Especially the cage is blocking even small birds from landing properly. I have a regular feeder which has been attracting more.". Things have changed in summer 2009: I had one old bird feeder that birds were already coming. I replaced that one with this one at the "same" location. When same birds showed, they spent the time to figoure out how to feed from this one. Once a few birds learned, the rest copied from them. Now canaries are fighting with each other to feed, works very well, low maintanance.

I couldn't be happier. It is so great not to have the bird seed getting wet from rain and snow. It was really fun watching the birds, one by one, learning how to get the sunflower seed from the feeder.