Birding Company 78622 Deluxe In House Wild Bird Feeder
- Deluxe inhouse wild bird window feeder with removable screened seed tray for safer, healthier bird feeding (Size: 22" x 8" x 13")
- Constructed of cedar and maple with oneway mirror film and includes locks to prevent opening access panel from outside
- No nails or screws necessary for installation and it opens wide for easy cleaning and filling
- Fits windows from 24" to 38" wide
- Great gift idea
Birding Company 78622 Deluxe In House Wild Bird Feeder
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- Publisher: Birding Company
- Label: Birding Company
- Studio: Birding Company
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- Sales Rank in Garden: #18877
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Summary: Nifty Gadget -- takes a while for birds to see it on 2nd story. 2007-05-15
Comment: The package arrived quickly...single box and build quality was good. I was taken back by a bit on the assembly required. The flaps, although adequate, were a bit lower quality than expected in a feeder that you spend $100 for. I was expecting "furniture build" caliber - and plastic panels and assembly detracted a bit. I thought the feeder would install like an AC unit that fits in your window and the sides might fan open or close to adjust to different window sizes, (Perhaps my expectations were higher, I did have to play with the placement of it prior to installation because of how our sills and window fit the feeder)
You have to cut some white plastic-like boards to length and depending on how your sill is...width and height. I used a dremel tool to make my cuts and placed the panels together prior, then marked them accordingly using my window as reference - before I made any cuts. Scotch tape works well for this to hold it all in place. I was very accurate with this technique, within a 1/64 of an inch fit to the window. I could see where people might not make a perfect fit because the white plastic panels need to fit in two wooden grooves on each side (top).
You lose about 3/32nds of an inch or so on the raw measurement...if you don't pre-assemble the unit prior to measuring it in reference to your window opening. If you mess up, you can still pull it off and use the insulation tape to cover any egregious sins in your installation.
Overall -- it installed in about 20 minutes or so and it's perfect. I still don't know where the hooks were suppose to go the instructions weren't clear and were borderline useless. I omitted the hooks and concluded they could go anywhere and are probably meant to hang things from. If you have an IQ over 100 you'll be fine -- lower...you might want to find a smarter person or handy man to help with the install.
Servicing it is a snap and the clamping mechanisms very adequate. It's easy to open/fill up from the inside. It also has a feeding grate "steel" hopefully stainless...(I didn't check it with a magnet), but the grate is framed with the same wood as the feeder and it sits in the unit. I'm pretty sure it's this way for cleaning/filling purposes. It's sort of free-floating and rests on another piece of wood so you can remove/clean/fill it. When the unit is open, you want to make sure you almost rest it on the plastic curve mirror so when you close it...it will maximize birds proximity for viewing when feeding. I'm wondering about long-term moisture if the seed falls through the grate, if it will start to rot the wood below. I guess I'll cross that bridge when I come to it.
I bought it for my daughter's room which is on the second story...I was hoping we'd get birds to come certainly within a month. I was shooting for Scarlet Tanagers (Hence the strawberries and fruit). We have other feeders and they are very convenient and well traveled, so the birds haven't seemed to find her feeder yet. It's been over a month but as I mentioned, she is on the second story. We only had 1 bird visit it so far...we are offering Fruit and Sunflower hearts in for feed. I'm sure it'll just take some time and they'll start showing up. I was able to witness my daughter seeing that one bird that came by...it was a morning dove and it wasn't as interested in the food as much as I think as it was seeing another reflection of a dove...spring time you know....
I think if we put it into a lower window...we would have had almost immediate success -- but I refuse to move it...It's right by my daughter's pillow and some day in the near future...she'll wake up to birds only inches away.
It's the little things in life.
-Brett
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