Perky-Pet® Navy 2-in-1 Tube Feeder - 1.8 lb Seed Capacity

I bought this feeder at Walmart after I returned a much more expensive one of similar design. This one works better! I have house finches, lesser goldfinches, and white crowned sparrows all visiting the feeder all day long. The seeds are down to the bottom ports by the end of the day. For those of you who are having trouble with this feeder, I recommend using Pennington wild finch mix and opening the ports. The seeds will pour out if you are not careful. I use a red funnel and pour them over a large terra-cotta pot I have positioned just under the feeder. Also, if you push down the seeds with your finger tip in each feeder port, they will be less likely to fall out. Nevertheless, by the end of the day, there will be a lot of spilt seeds in the pot. Just simply scoop them out and throw them away or vacuum them out. If you leave them over night, the rodents will eat them. I do not want rats, so I clean up every day at dusk. Be patient with this product. It takes birds a few days to a couple weeks to find a new feeder, so don't get discouraged if they do not show up right after you hang it.

A fair, cheap feeder, and the birds like it. You need to make sure the movable parts are in the right position or the seed falls straight out. Worst issue is with squirrels - they nibble away at the plastic ports, trying to get the seed out, and ruin them. My tube is still good (even though it gaps a little and is held tight by duck tape), but some of the ports are savaged. It would be great if I could buy spare ports, though a new feeder is not expensive. But once the ports are nibbled again, I'll be left with another useless tube.

I gave this product a rating of 1 because of no choice to give it a zero. Drainage holes at bottom of feeder are too big and drain out thistle seeds at a ridiculous rate. Filled one the night before and by noon the next day it was over half emptied. I know it wasn't squirrels be because they can't get to it.

Bought this feeder yesterday at Walmart and put up with mixed seed in it. This morning a squirrel evidently climbed on it and the bail broke so it landed on the ground. Sides don't seem to be attached to each other either, maybe held together by the screw on cap. I guess you get what you pay for and this was a pretty cheap feeder.

Amazing that feeder makers never seem to learn what makes a good feeder. On the other hand, if they want to sell lots of feeders to people who don't know what actually works, their plan is working. Small openings well above the bottom of the feeder means the wet seed in the bottom stays there, molds, and spoils the rest of the seed. so people keep buying different feeders, looking for the one that works. Perky-Pet used to sell a simple, inexpensive feeder for Nijer seed that worked well. I can't find it any more. Now everyone is charging $40-$60 for feeders that don't work well. If you don't need to refill the feeder either the seed is spoiled or the birds cannot get it out of the feeder.

The lids that are supposed to close and open, simply fall off, are hard to place back, and they fall out easily again. It is frustrating. One hour after trying to make it to work somehow, I got so frustrated that I put it in the trash can. It left me a sense of loss or of having been ripped off.