A bird feeder has a spherical container suspended from a wire yoke for pivoting freely about a horizontal diameter, and a pipe and feeder table are secured to the bottom of this sphere. The pipe surrounds a bottom opening of the sphere, the feeder table is secured to the bottom of the pipe, and the pipe has bottom openings above the feeder table to dispense birdseed onto the feeder table. A rim around the feeder table retains the birdseed and serves as a perch, a deflector extends up into the bottom of the pipe to guide the birdseed through the bottom openings of the pipe, peck holes are drilled into the pipe wall to make small seeds accessable to small birds directly through the pipe wall, and a drip ring is secured around the underside of the sphere.
An improved depending bird feeder container, having a dung shield suspended over the bird feeder container and having the container formed to a special shape, similar to a "bell" shaped substantially cylindrical walled housing or container of a specific minimum diameter at the top or suspended portion of the container and a flare of a minimum length. This shape defeats squirrels and similar animals from climbing down the outside of the feeder container.
Apparatus is provided for converting an empty beverage can of standard design into a device for unattendedly feeding aqueous nutrient to hummingbirds. The apparatus is comprised of holding means for attachment to the bottom of the can to support it pendantly in an inverted position, and a dispensing member which fits over the downwardly disposed open upper extremity of the can. The dispensing member is provided with a flange that engages the upper rim of the can, and an elongated downwardly oriented spout having a small exit aperture.
A bird feeder including a shallow feeding tray into which bird feed flows through a passageway from a supply cavity above the tray, which bird feeder includes spaced vertical partitions within the feeding tray which restrict wind blowing bird feed from the feeding tray and brushing or scattering of bird feed from the feeding tray by side to side motion of the bill of a bird perched on the feeder.
A bird feeder having a container, a selector, and a base is disclosed. The selector has at least one large opening and at least one small opening. The base includes at least one feeding port. When one of the openings is aligned with the feeding port, the other opening is covered by a perimeter wall of the base. In preferred embodiments, the base includes a rain guard above the feeding ports.
A bird feeder is constructed of two tubular containers attached end-to-end by a coupler threaded at opposite ends. A feed flow mechanism extends through the coupler and into both containers. Feed gravitationally flowing through the feed flow mechanism accumulates in a feed trough at the base of the lower tubular container. The amount of feed accumulating in the trough is controlled by the feed flow mechanism.
