To top off or refill this feeder, lift it down off the hook. It typically needs a little seed added to it each day. I have a lot of birds in my yard and this feeder is already popular. Mine is attached to the hook of a weather guard that hangs above it. My local bird store sells useful hooks of this kind for fifty cents. You need a hook to hang it on a pole or branch. Like many tube type feeders, it has a hanging loop at the top. Woodlink Squirrel-Proof Seed Tube Feeder Hanging & Filling the Feeder
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I describe these Erva Feeder Post Extensions and how to add them in a separate post. I learned I could purchase extensions for the poles I have to make them taller. As I was making my purchase, I was telling one of the folks who works there about my pole height. This year I decided to give it a try anyway. I needed it to stay above the pole’s squirrel baffle. But I worried it was too tall to hang on my bird feeder pole.
I remember looking at this feeder or one very similar in my local bird store ( Mother Natures in Columbia Maryland) last year. The tube that holds the seed is taller, although a little narrower. The Woodlink feeder measures 19” from the top of the extended hanging loop to the base (or 16.5” not including the loop.) It has six food ports instead of the four of the globe feeder. This feeder is bigger than the Nuttery Globe Seed Feeder, another cage-type feeder I purchased a year ago. My newest feeder is a Woodlink Squirrel-Proof Seed Tube Feeder in their Coppertop Tube Feeder Series. When larger nuisance birds dominate bird feeders, adding a cage feeder can let smaller birds eat. Last Updated on Octoby Nancie American Goldfinches Eating Sunflower in Woodlink Feeder