Bird ins Choice Single Cake Upside Down Suet Feeder w/ Hanging Cable

Maybe the woodpeckers in my yard are just dumb . . .

I've had one of these for six months now, and have done everything under the sun to get birds to come to it. I've pushed suet out the bottom to make it more visible. I've hung a regular suet cage under it. I've got lots of woodpeckers here and other small birds using the suet cage (I go through a suet cake every 4 or 5 days in the summer, about every other day now that it's colder) but the birds just haven't found the suet in the upside-down feeder. Well, one or two have pecked a little at it, but they don't come back, and others don't follow them. When I put those very same suet cakes in the other feeder, there are plenty of birds.

I thought this was a great way to keep the grackles out of the suet (they were eating 2 cakes a day), but it sure didn't get suet to the birds I wanted to give it to. My solution was to use Thistle and Safflower seed in the regular feeders -- grackles don't like either...Read more

I agree with the other review, it's not "starling proof" but the suet cakes last a lot longer. Plus you get some entertainment value watching the starlings try to get to it. They can only eat for a few seconds at a time and give up after a few minutes. I had a downy woodpecker eating on it within a few minutes of hanging it.

Although this feeder is not starling "proof", it is definitely starling "resistent". The starlings can hang upside down to feed on it but not for very long so they can't decimate a suet cake like they could on a regular feeder. This feeder is not squirrel proof or resistant so keep that in mind if you've got squirrel problems. We just smear marine grease on the bottom portion of our feeder pole and that keeps them from climbing up to the feeders.