Birds Choice Suet Log Feeder, 4-Log Capacity

I bought this in a natural wood feeder with bevels at the same time, and assumed that birds would prefer the would one with bevels because it would be easier to cling to. Nope, they love the recycled one. It's popular with both acorn and Nutall's woodpeckers. We did have one Steller's Jay who couldn't quite figure out how to use it and kept bouncing off the thing like flubber, but that guy's had trouble with a lot of the feeders, so make of that what you will.

Nicely done, the look is awsome.

There is a small ring at the top of this feeder that will not fit on my shepherd’s hook. Also, the holes are very smooth inside, so as the birds eat, the food tends to get pushed through. It would be better if those holes had some texture. The birds liked it just fine until a squirrel decided to try it out and broke my rigged-up loop. I like that it is made of recycled plastic.

I had hoped that this log would have some texture to it, but it is a plastic log that is slippery, with some holes bored through it. The birds manage to get to the suet, but I had imagined a surface that woodpeckers could grab (as if they were pecking on a tree limb), but unless they interbreed with Spiderman, I cannot see how they can comfortably perch on the log.Still, the suet gets eaten, and so I must assume that something is getting it out of the holes.This may be off the topic, but I make my own suet cakes and find that the birds far prefer them to the storebought ones. They are more nutritious and are easily mixed up using 5 lbs lard, 5 lbs cornmeal, 3 lbs whole wheat flour, a large jar of chunky store-brand peanut butter and 2 large boxes of raisins. It can be made in loaf pans and sliced into pieces that fit into regular suet feeders (or pressed into this log).

This is easy to fill inexpensively by mashing in plugs cut from ordinary suet cakes, and it's simple to keep clean with soap and water. Two things I most like about it is that squirrels have a hard time with it, and it is easy to disguise as real wood when digitally processing photos of birds eating at it - I don't like having a green wire suet cake feeder intruding in my bird photos, and it's impossibly tedious to remove digitally.. Attached is a photo of a female Downy Woodpecker using this feeder, before and after digital post processing.