“I bought the version with a small dish at the bottom, on the advice of a member of staff at Vine House Farm. I wanted to prevent the squirrels from running off with the coconut halves put out for the small birds. Sitting the coconut half in the dish works perfectly. The birds took a day or two to work out how to get inside the cage, but now they are .able to enjoy the coconut without hindrance. Very pleased!”
“I use this feeder for a variety of bird foods for blue tits, sparrows, robins , small birds.Blackbirds and starlings are unable to access and the small birds can get all the food. (the big birds I feed elsewhere with a tray type feeder. The cage is being visited all day every day.”
“This is an interesting design, at first feeling a bit cumbersome, the lid a bit skewed. However It excludes larger birds perfectly leaving the meal worms for blue and great tits only, (so far only these two species). The worms are still taken within a few seconds though. Adding a fat ball keeps the birds coming for a bit longer..”
“Regretfully the birds could not find their way into the feeder to get the live mealworms......so after a couple of weeks I decided to give the mealworms to the hedgehogs in my garden. I am sorry the Feeder didn’t do its job, however the hedgehogs adore the mealworms! I didn’t want to ‘rubbish’ the Caged Feeder-I have just got thick birds! I plan to try it again next winter.”
All new feeders do need to be left for some time for birds to get used to them. With the Caged Feeder it helps to leave the lid open at first, to encourage birds to enter it.
“Pleased with the construction of the feeder but unfortunately the starlings who visit my garden are slim and determined and so gained access to the cage and gobbled up the meal worms - after some adjustment of the ports they are now excluded.”
