Wild Bills Battery Operated Squirrel Proof Bird Feeder
Wild Bills Battery Operated Squirrel Proof Bird Feeder Review
We do like the Wild Bill’s bird feeder an recommend it. Now, we give it a good review probably not for the common reason but instead because it is just a great hopper design. The Wild Bill’s bird feeder is what we have in our own backyards as a primary hopper feeder, and we fill it with black oil sunflower. While the feeder itself is promoted as being a battery operated squirrel proof design, what you aren’t told is that with the circular design, you tend to get a lot of birds perching on it at once. They can’t really see each other and it cuts down on the bickering and jostling that happens at feeding stations.
Also, it holds 10lbs of seed. This is a great feature! If you have busy feeding stations or are just a busy person - aren’t we all - you spend far less time refilling feeders when you use a large capacity model. The cone shaped design goes a long way to keep the seed dry, too. Even when it rains really hard here the seed in this feeder does not get wet. We clean our Wild Bill’s bird feeder far less than we do our others.
As far as the squirrel proof feature, the battery operated zap works like a charm. It does not hurt the squirrels either, but they surely don’t care for it. Our personal Wild Bills is not even used in this manner as we have it squirrel baffled in other ways, but we gave one of these to our Grandmother who lives in an apartment and has major squirrel trouble. Well she did anyway, she doesn’t any more. Our Grandma gets tickled to bits when a squirrel gets a little zap. We thin she has it out for them since they kept the birds from her feeders for so long, but that’s another story. One thing you need to watch out for is the batteries. If the batteries go dead, you have no way of knowing until you see a squirrel on your feeder. We have found the batteries last and recommend simply using re-chargeable. This hasn’t been a problem for Grandma!
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