Birds Choice Single Cake Upside Down Suet Feeder with Green Roof

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Price: $27.63 $22.58   

Product Feature

• Single cake capacity
• Heavy duty hanging cable
• Made from recycled plastic

Product Description

This Birds Choice suet feeder is designed to be used upside down. Starlings and grackles cannot perch on and feed, woodpeckers and nuthatches enjoy for themselves.

Birds Choice Single Cake Upside Down Suet Feeder with Green Roof Review

This is a review for the product, and Bird's Choice products in general. As far as the seller goes, the transaction went smooth & fast and the product was neatly packed, so good marks to them as well.
I actively feed the birds in my tiny suburb backyard, and I have purchased MANY feeders, from many different companies. I fully admit that it's a bit of an obsession... trying them out and finding the ones that work best. So far I have identified about 17 species, mixing and matching the feeders based on what seed works best with what feeder, and what time of year it is. The squirrels are an issue too, but with a little bit of tinkering, I generally get around them.
Invariably, my faves always wind up being the Bird's Choice feeders.
No, I am not a spokesperson for Bird's Choice. They just work better, what can I say? If you go to their official website, you will see that they make a huge variety of feeders, not just types but materials.
The recycled feeders they make are my all-time favorites. I have this one (the upside down suet feeder), the acorn-shaped peanut feeder, and my favorite feeder ever, the Fly Through. I will leave reviews for these as well.
This is for the recycled single cake upside down suet feeder.
Goodbye, Starlings. You cannot cling and devour my suet cakes anymore. Ha ha ha. None of the non-clingers can navigate this feeder, which is the entire reason for up-side down suet feeding.
(Yes, I do watch my birds from the back windows where I have applied mirror film. I have hooks in front of these windows as well, and when I hang a feeder there, I can literally get my face within inches of the bird. And let me tell you, they are WAY different looking up close. These little guys are arial warriors; covered in battle scars with a wary intelligence in their eyes. And to watch the squirrels and undesirable birds struggle & not get anywhere is a treat. There, I said it. I'm mean and I play favorites.)
This stuff is sometimes called "poly lumber" and man is it ever strong. The squirrels cannot chew it. It doesn't crack in winter. The color has barely faded after two years out in the elements and the sun. And it is a testament to how well these feeders hold up given that the suet and fly-through have been out since the day I bought them, whereas other feeders go in and out (usually depending on my mood or the season) and still others are in the graveyard in my closet, barely used.
I make my own suet by using a mold I created and the feed I want (peanuts, nuggets, dried fruit, saff & sun) and melting pure suet which you can buy online as well. I am a from-scratch soapmaker as well, and I tried rendering my own suet - do not waste your time, unless you find a butcher that likes you, it takes forever and the resulting product is usually too small to do anything with. Just buy the pure suet in cakes and melt in the microwave if you want to go this route (I'm talking bird-feeding now, not soap-making). The reason I make my own cakes is that it helps attract the birds I like.
Homemade cakes, combined with the upside-down engineering, gets me the downy woodpeckers, chickadees, sparrows (of course), the occasional red-bellied woodpecker, titmouse and my favorite bird, the white-breasted Nuthatch. And, during a select week this past fall, I got to see a Red-breasted NH as they migrate down from Canada through my US location. There he or she was, clinging to my upside-down suet feeder. It was brave and hungry enough that I was on the porch at the time with my nephew, we were less than two feet away. We just stared at it, then he ate and ignored us. That went on for four days, then it moved on. What a treat.
This is my second purchase of this feeder. I had friend of mine who is a woodworker modify the ends of the 'roofs' to sandwich them together and make it a double. He said the blade went right through the poly lumber like it was wood, no melting or struggling. I love this poly-lumber stuff! It works fantastic as a double and I think Bird's Choice should offer this feeder that way. A month after I put it up as a double, I saw a large female red-bellied woodpecker clinging off of it, using the increased feeding surface to prop her tail, munching away. That was the plan, and it worked. They do offer a double, but it is wood, and I like the recycled feeders better.
Great feeder, nothing negative to say!!
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Well, it's time for an update. Today is Dec 7, 2011, and I am still thrilled with this feeder. The Downys and the Nuthatch use it daily. The Chickadee occasionally gives it a taste. There are absolutely NO nuisance birds at this feeder whatsoever. They try, they cannot cling, they give up fast, I laugh.
I did not see the Red Bellied Wp at it this year, but that is probably because I did not have time this summer for a lot of custom suet-making. The Downy will eat the pure suet on a daily basis. The Nuthatch does too, but not as eagerly as it did the homemade cakes. And I have a feeling that the RB WP preferred the homemade cakes and that is why he stopped using it. But, he was scarce to begin with.
In any case, I love this feeder!

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