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Bird Seed Feeder This type of feeder is suitable for Black Sunflower Seeds, Sunflower Hearts, Huskfree Advance, Huskfree Supermix, Original Wild Bird Food, Premium Wild Bird Food, Feeder Seeds, Native Finch and High Energy Extra Mix The design of this type of bird feeder ensures that all of the above products will flow through the bird feeder (so the level will drop down as the birds take the food). Sizes in our range go from two port right up to the 12 port shown in the image. If it can be afforded, it really is better to go for a larger bird feeder and the reason for this is that finches in particular prefer to feed in flocks (so from perhaps 6 birds up to 20 or more) and therefore a very small feeder will not be able to cope with the number of garden birds trying to get onto it. For many people, the 6 port feeder is idealand having several of these positioned at different points of the garden is a good approach Many species of garden bird will use tube feeders and these include Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Chaffinch, Siskin, House sparrow, Tree sparrow, Blue Tit, Great Tit and Coal Tit. Finches will typically stay on a feeder perch while feeding, whereas Tits will usually take away individual seeds (e.g. Black Sunflower Seeds) to eat them elsewhere (they'll return time and time again to do this). A critical aspect of having a tube bird feeder in your garden is keeping it clean - see 'Importance of keeping feeders and feeding areas clean'. |
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Niger Seed Bird Feeder The principle of this feeder is similar to the seed feeder in that the seed flows down the tube as the birds take the food. However and as the name suggests, this feeder is for Niger seed (and also our Goldfinch Food). The reason that Niger seed needs a special feeder is that its tiny size and tendency to flow very easily means that it would pour out of the ports on a normal seed feeder. So the holes in the tube are very small but certainly big enough for the main species which eats Niger - the Goldfinch - to take the seeds out. Although Goldfinches will be the main species to use this bird feeder, Siskins also will do so and the connection here is the shape of the bill - both have relatively pointed bills (certainly for a finch) and have evolved these to eat their normal foods in the wild (in the case of the Goldfinch, this includes the seeds from thistles). So other birds such as Greenfinches will eat Niger, but the shape of their bill makes it difficult for them to get the seed out of the small holes in the bird feeder (and if the holes were larger, the seed would simply flow out). Although Niger seed is sometimes referred to as 'thistle seed' (at least by one supplier of it...) it is in fact related to the sunflower family and comes from a plant called the Ramtil which is native to Ethiopia. We have a very large range of Niger Seed Feeders available on this site. |
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