Garden Song 102-4 Select-A-Bird Tube Feeder

 (14 customer reviews)

I have nothing bad to say about this product. I have been using it for several weeks now and it is definitely my favorite. The birds love it, too! ;)

The perches are adjustable from underneath the base. Supposedly this allows you to choose which size birds you would like to accomodate. I open it all the way, and the regulars (finches, sparrows, titmice, chickadees, cardinals, woodpeckers) have no problem using it. Larger birds may be able to use it, with some difficulty. I have seen the blue jay use it, and it was quite comical. He perched, squatted and maneuvered his body sideways to get the seed. The mechanism underneath sometimes gets stuck, but it always responds with some tooling around.

-NO WASTE!!! The lowest perches are on the very bottom of the feeder, which means the birds themselves are cleaning it out. There is none of that moldy old seed left in the bottom. You could easily get away with cleaning this once every few weeks...Read more

I bought 2 of these to go on the sides of an arbor; one is filled with thistle and the other with sunflower seeds. The thistle one works perfectly. The sunflower seed's perches are constantly being closed by squirrels. I have tried to hold the perches open, but so far have not found the correct solution (my next try will be duct tape). Chickadees don't seem to mind the closed feeder and are able to perch without them.

Still, the feeders are inexpensive, look nice, and are easy to fill. If there was a locking mechanism on the perch I would have given this 5 stars.

Works well, seems to be made well, holds a lot of seed, and the birds are all over them. I bought 2 and the birds ignored them for two days when I hung them next to my other feeders. Then they decided to accept the new feeders, and all is well.
IMPORTANT UPDATE:
It's been a year and I need to point out two problems.
With these feeders you have the ability to adjust the distance of the perches from the feeder by twisting the bottom of the feeder. I've noticed that every time a bird takes off after feeding, the perches close a little bit. After a day or so, I would find the perches completely closed and would have to twist the bottom to open them again.I fixed this by cutting a medium sized plastic tie-wrap so the "head" remains, plus about 3/8" of the tie-wrap. Find the clear plastic between each lower perch. You'll notice that there are two layers of clear plastic that slide over each other when you twist the body. I opened the perches to the desired spot, then drilled...Read more