Birds were feeding within half a day of setting it up.
With this feeder they feeding ports are slightly deeper than normal, they have to reach in further to eat and less food gets thrown out. Previously sparrows (in my garden) tended to throw as much food as they eat onto the grass, attracting flocks of pigeons. An unexpected benefit I have found is that the sparrows are much less 'messy' than with other feeders.
This "Squirrel Buster" feeder is brilliant in that it can be adjusted so that only the lightest of birds can feed, while anything heavier than a couple of starlings will close off the feeding ports. I dislike the caged type of feeder, and my other bird feeders have been overtaken with parakeets who eat me out of house and home. This is an excellent piece of design, certainly the best bird feeder that I have found so far, and I have tried many different types. We're not sure what we can advise regarding Einstein he sounds like a very determined and clever pigeon. Please do contact our customer service department who will be able to help you, you do not need to send it back to Canada. They are built to last hence the 10 year guarantee and therefore yours should not have broke in that time. RSPB response: Thank you for your review, we are very sorry that this product has not lived up to expectations.
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God knows how to send it back to Canada for a replacement, the 10 year guarantee is worthless. I am very very disappointed to have spent more than £100 on these feeders. This could be from Einstein's continued attempts but now, in a matter of days, half the contents of the feeder is on the ground and not a pigeon in sight meaning that the seed is coming out without any significant weight on the perches. My ex bought me this one and, after 2 years the mechanism appears to have failed completely - there appears to be no resistance no matter what setting I put the weight mechanism on, when I press down - or even if a blue tit sits on the perch, the tray shoots up spraying seed everywhere. Still one pigeon we called ""Einstein"" would just fly up, land one claw on one perch so that the feeder would wobble enough before the tray lifted up and that was enough to spill out some seeds. We solved this by putting reinforced tape behind each alternate feeding hole, and removed the 3 related perches at the same time, leaving only 3 feeding holes and 3 related perches screwed in to the max. We found that pigeons could still flap on one metal perch and get their beaks into the adjacent feeding hole - completely defeating the feeder. The first one fell apart in my ex's hands when he was trying to put it back together after a clean- the metal was all rusty and just broke. Guess I'll never know if it actually got to the nuts! At nearly £60 quid it's not cheap, but the entertainment was worth it at the end of the day. Would I buy another absolutely as I do have a serious squirrel and pigeon problem, however I will be looking at a more secure means of attaching it to my bird table. The badger then returned to the feeder, spent another 10 minutes or so until it finally gave up, beaten by the anti squirrel technology! The second the badger turned it's back the fox leapt at the feeder, grabbed it in it's mouth and disappeared down my garden, around the back of my shed and is now lost forever! I have had similar experiences with this fox before and have tried to work out which garden he actually heads for but to no avail. Once again the fox made another assault on the feeder and was, once again, chased up the garden this time. The badger then continued to try and access the peanuts until he appeared to take a break. He saw an opportunity and made to grab it, the badger wasn't having any of that and chased him off down the garden towards my home. Whilst this was going on my regular visiting fox was sitting watching this action. I checked my cctv to find that initially a badger had managed to remove it from the bird table and then spent the next 15 -20 minutes attempting to get to the peanuts inside. I purchased one of these on the 29th of March I don't remember the exact day it arrived but by the early hours of Sunday 24th April all I was left with was the connecting wire between the feeder and the bird table it was hanging from.
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