Perky-Pet 395 10-Inch Sunflower Seed and Peanut Wild Bird Feeder

 (13 customer reviews)

For 7 weeks now I have been using this little black plastic feeder with its study metal top. I had filled it halfway with unshelled raw peanuts and halfway with shelled pistachios. It is now almost empty and ready to be filled again. I don't have a lot of birds that come to my yard, but have at least two Chickadees that visit this feeder at least twice daily - they seem to enjoy a few bites of suet, a few bites of peanuts or pistachios from this feeder, and then on they go to the tube feeder for some seed mix. So I have all types of feeders and am not sure if this feeder alone would pull the birds in or not. I have also occasionally seen a Carolina Wren or a Downy Woodpecker at this feeder (when it is more full). Sometimes I see a squirrel spending about 5 minutes to (I guess) lick the peanuts since he can't pull the peanuts through such little holes (unless he is breaking them somehow into smaller pieces). The squirrels seem especially aggressive this season - one broke...Read more

I bought 3 of these feeders at least 2.5 years ago because (a) where I live/have my feeders they are subjected to a lot of wind and potential visits from coons & squirrels and I needed something that would hold up to that abuse, and (b) they were on sale & much less expensive than other nut/sunflower seed feeders I've seen and (c) I knew I'd need multiples because I have a lot of wild birds on my place - both permananent residents and migrants.

It only took a day, maybe two for the hairy & downy woodpeckers to find the feeders. I fill them with a mixed nut blend I get from a local feed store and all of my clinging type nut-eating birds love it! Even the bigger red belly woodpecker just wraps herself around the feeder & goes to town.

I just used a simple bread tie to keep squirrels/coons from being able to lift the lid up and dump the nuts out. (personal experience) I also hang them with a standard bird feeder chain that I double wrap around the built in metal...Read more

One reviewer said the body of this feeder was plastic, but it really is metal, as described. Yes, the holes are too small for the peanuts to easily fit through, but think about it--add the size needed to accomodate the bird's beak around the peanut, and you'd have holes so big, all the nuts would fall out of the feeder. Our birds peck at the nuts to break them up, then pull out the bits. We've had lots of Downy's so far, plus nuthatches, and we were surprised to see Red-winged Blackbirds using it! It's a nice, solid feeder that should last for many years.