{"product_id":"bird-feeder-that-closes-under-weight-squirrel-resistant-metal-cage","title":"Bird Feeder That Closes Under Weight - Squirrel-Resistant Metal Cage","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt takes a squirrel about a day to solve most feeders. It finds the jump, works out the grip, and by the weekend it is hanging upside down off the roof with its front paws in the seed while the chickadees wait it out in the hedge. This bird feeder makes that harder in two separate ways, which is why it holds up better than either one on its own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first is the cage. Green metal bars stand off the seed tube the whole way round, spaced so a chickadee, a nuthatch or a house finch hops straight through without slowing down, and close enough to keep a squirrel’s paw well away from the seed. That is also the honest limit of a caged bird feeder, and it is worth knowing before you order: it turns away the big birds along with the squirrels, so jays, doves and grackles are not landing on this one either. If watching cardinals and finches is the point, that trade is the whole appeal. If you want everything in the garden fed, this is the wrong bird feeder.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second is weight. Each of the four ports closes when enough weight settles on the perch below it, and opens again the moment that weight leaves. A goldfinch does not register. Something heavy does, and the port shuts in front of it. Squirrel-resistant is the accurate word for the two mechanisms together, and resistant is doing real work in that sentence: nothing hanging in a garden turns a squirrel away every single time. Hang the bird feeder within jumping range of a fence, a low branch or a porch rail and a determined one still gets its shot at it. Give the bird feeder clear air on every side and the cage and the ports get to do their work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe build is plain and it is metal — every part except the clear seed tube, under a rust-resistant coating, because this bird feeder lives outdoors through the whole year and nothing about it comes inside for the winter. It holds 3 lb of seed at 16.5 inches tall and 7 across, which on a busy garden is a refill you do on your own schedule rather than every morning. It hangs from the loop on top of the roof: a branch, a shepherd’s hook or a bracket all work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo small things make it a bird feeder you keep using rather than one you get tired of. The roof lifts off the top so you fill it standing up, straight from the scoop, without unhooking anything. And the base cap comes away at the bottom, so the tube empties and rinses out instead of collecting a damp layer at the bottom that nobody can reach. Seed you would not eat is seed the birds skip too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFill it, hang it somewhere you can see from a window, and give it a week. It takes the birds a few days to find a new bird feeder, and then it stops being furniture and starts being the thing you look at while the kettle boils.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo Things Stop A Squirrel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMetal Where It Matters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Bottom Comes Off\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Roof Does The Work\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Winslow Lane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43305149399117,"sku":"WL-BIRDCAGE","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/4445\/6781\/files\/bcece7ff1408e0db9e5a4d2b4a9048b2.png?v=1784952289","url":"https:\/\/www.winslowlane.com\/products\/bird-feeder-that-closes-under-weight-squirrel-resistant-metal-cage","provider":"Winslow Lane","version":"1.0","type":"link"}