Posted by admin | Posted in Pet Supplies | Posted on 16-05-2010
- Holds up to 2 lb of thistle seed or finch mix
- Six Upside Down feeding ports with perches
- Includes a weather resistant cap and feeding tube
Product Description
Keep undesirable house finches and larger birds away from your finch feeders with this unique finch feeder. It’s designed to attract goldfinches, who can easily feed upside down while other species cannot. Holds up to 2 pounds of thistle seed or finch mix. Features plastic squirrel-resistant cap and perches. Cap slides along a hanging bail for ease of filling. Weather-resistant 18 inch feeder tube. Six upside-down feeding ports & perches. Feeder empties completely l… More >>
Perky Pet 399 Patented Upside Down Thistle Feeder, 2 lb capacity
This product is the ONLY thing to use for thistle seeds. You will get some bright yellow goldfinches, who are the “only” bird that can hang upside down to eat the seeds. Any other feeder will attract sparrows. Sparrows land on the posts on this one and try really hard to reach under, but always fall off the perch. The gold finches just spin around upside down and go to town eating. It does make a bit of a mess under it, with thistle seed tailings, so be careful on placement (i.e. in a garden not on your patio, or have some kind of tray underneath).
Rating: 5 / 5
These feeders work exactly as advertised. They attract more finches than another feeder I have with a metal top. Somehow, the finches seem to be more attracted to the yellow tops.
I also want to compliment the vendor for excellant service. It was fast, with no hassel at all.
Rating: 5 / 5
I thought this had has metal parts it is all plastic but the finches love it.
Rating: 4 / 5
First day I hung this feeder squirrels ate a hole through the plastic tube and ruined the feeder.The material used in the manufacturing process is substandard.
Rating: 1 / 5
Only the goldfinches actually have no problem eating the thistle they love, while hanging upside down.
Usually, sparrows or house finches will bully out the goldfinches, eventually scaring them away, but this unique feeder takes advantage of the fact that those larger, less graceful birds just can’t hang upside down, so if you just want pure goldfinch at a feeder, this is the way to guarantee that.
Here is a slow motion video I recorded of a couple goldfinches enjoying the feeder.
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Goldfinches are great to have around… for one thing, they eat dandelion seeds, right off your lawn… for another, they sing their hearts out a lot of the year, like a bunch of cute little canaries. their acrobatic hijinks alone are a good reason to have lots of good windows on your house, just so you can see them looping and bouncing through the air as if there were no such thing as gravity.
I suggest that you plant birch trees, sun flowers, silphium, and get more than one thistle feeder. If you run out of spots at your house, give some to neighbors, and you’ll build up a critical mass of goldfinches in your neighborhood that will be an amazing thing to witness.
There is nothing quite like hundreds of beautiful yellow goldfinches singing all morning in a large tree, then coming to your window feeder squabbling and arguing about who gets the best spot.
Rating: 5 / 5