My Favorite Bird Feeder Which Does Not Invite Squirrels To Sup on the Bird Seed

We have often had bird feeders during our life together.  We love birds though we are not "birders".  Often in Vermont the squirrels got more bird seed than that birds, which always distressed me.  The reason is that squirrels are able to store up food for winter but birds only store what they can eat day by day.

Now we have ( and have had for a couple of years) a bird feeder that is strictly for the birds.  Don't get me wrong, squirrels enjoy the seed, but only the seed that falls to the ground.

Here is the feeder, and then pictures of it taken of it while it is apart so you can see how it assembles and why the squirrels cannot get into the feeder.  It cost $50 and has been well worth the cost.  

Bad picture.  I don't have life enough to get up and take another picture at the moment...

This is the feeder disassembled into three parts--the inner reservoir for seeds, the outer casing which keeps the squirrels away, and the little green handle with a triangular top to hang on the cast iron hanger.

Here you can clearly see the outer casing has been replaced over the bird seed reservoir and the rod sticking up with a hole in it for the covered rod to be inserted then hung on the "tree hanger".

This shows the covered rod being inserted into the hole and when flipped up will attach to the tree hanger and keep the hole from rusting out in the rain,

We are so happy with this feeder because both the birds and the squirrels benefit in their own separate ways.  You will notice the white plastic bucket  which is where we store the bird seed.  It is a two-gallon bucket with a Gamma Seal cover.  If you don't know Gamma Seals, and if you store things in two-gallon or five-gallon buckets, you need to research those Gamma Seals.  We have used them for many many years and love them.  They give your buckets screw-off covers. I used to destroy my fingernails and fingers trying to get the miserable covers off buckets.  Now I don't!

OH! IMPORTANT NOTE:  The reason the squirrels cannot get into this feeder is that when they climb onto the little footholds, the weight of the squirrel makes the outer casing slide down over the food tray at the bottom of the inner seed reservoir!  So smart.  There are other feeders, I think by the same company who, when a squirrels weight shows up on the feeder  the weight causes the feeder to twirl around really fast flinging the squirrel away. I could not bear to do that.  I might be mean, but I am not THAT mean!