iBornSquirrel Proof Bird Feeder - Pigeon Proof Cage for Outside With Pestoff Hanging Wild Bird Seed for Mix Blends - Heavy Duty All Metal Copper 14 Inch

This feeder is the most convenient squirrel proof way of dispensing sunflower seeds to smaller birds that I have found. I do use a bird feed funnel to fill it and recommend you purchase that for the top opening. It takes very little time and effort to remove the cage, refill the tube and return it all to your hook on the tree. It took a full week for my birds to trust this feeder, but patience paid off. Starlings are leaving it alone. This feeder will Not allow the larger birds in. It’s light weight, well-designed, elegant looking, durable and effective.Additionally. One reviewer showed a squirrel inside the feeder. If you will look at the photo you'll see that the feeder is Not hanging. It is stationary. If it were hanging, there is no way that squirrel could have Struggled his way in.

Good capacity, thwarts the stellar jays and woodpecker, squirrels reach their hands in and barely reach a few kernels. Getting ready to buy one more. Outside the squirrelnator, which I can’t afford, this is best.the slider feeders still allow jays and woodpeckers easy access to food wasting.

The small birds LOVE this feeder. The design is a pain. The lid doesn’t fit well and the tubing is plastic. I don’t see this feeder lasting long, and I feed a lot of birds and I’ve done it a long time. When I replace the top after refilling, I have to “gently squeeze” the tube to replace the lid. Even then sometimes it’s a battle to get the lid to close. Then you have to line up the handle to pull through the cage top.

This is a well-built feeder, strong and functional. I am quite pleased with it. The top hanger is rigid which makes it easy to slip on the pole hanger. I have several that have a loose ring at top that makes holding a heavy filled feeder and having to hold the ring up at top as well a real pain!

We have now bought two of these feeders and they are great! It takes the little birds a couple of tries before the figure out how to get in there, but the sparrows can stand on the outside & eat just fine. It keeps the larger birds away which is what we wanted.

This feeder does not keep out large birds like grackles. Any bird with a long neck and beak can reach through the wire and reach the seed areas. They about emptied the feeder in one day. The base needs to be bigger so the distance between the wire cage and feeder is too far for these big birds to reach in and get the seeds.

The iBorn bird feeder has some positive features and one major design flaw. It is easy to put together. It has better protection from wet weather than my tube feeders because the bottom of the feeder is enclosed rather than an open tray. It has six feeding ports, two more than most tube feeders, and it's easy to fill. The house finches took to it right away.The design flaw is that the cage's diameter isn't wide enough. The outer cage needs to be at least two more inches away from the perches, all the way around. One of the first things that happened was that a female house finch got caught when she fell off a perch and opened her wings to stop her fall. One of her wings caught on a cage opening. Fortunately, she extricated herself after I went out to take a look, but it was a heart-stopping moment. Bird feeders have to be safe for the birds!!! The bigger problem is that the female house finches don't have enough room to maneuver themselves into a proper position to eat from the feeding ports. They are smashed between the seed tube and the cage. The male house finches are large enough to stand on the outside cage bars and reach into the seed ports without entering the cage. The females aren't large enough to do that. A small difference in size makes a large difference in access. Grackles, too, can get to the seed ports by simply putting their heads and long beaks into the interstices of the cage. A bigger diameter of the outer cage would keep those bullies from scarfing up the seeds.

Why did you pick this product vs others?:The use of a "fence" surrounding the feeder tube has been quite effective. It has been amusing to watch squirrels try to figure a way to raid the seed and leave frustrated.And there is no longer the situation where a grackle or crow swoops in frightening the smaller birds away.