How many feeders?????? [Archive]

pduxon

Tuesday 13th January 2004, 09:37

Hi birdman , not quite as grand a scale as yours I have 6 feeders out, if it were light there would be House Sparrows ...on all of them.

Hi Birdman2689

there are 4 and a bird table. I'm at work so can't prove what is there but....

I'd gues House Sparrows and Greenfinches engaging in the usual "turf war" with Robins, Blue Tits & Great Tits dipping in and out.

There are two bird baths in the garden. Great fun watching Mr Blackbird have a bath when it was too hot last summer.

Euan Buchan

Tuesday 13th January 2004, 10:00

I have 2 a lil wooden one and a long plastic one that I got in a WWT Nature Reserve that one gets more birds then the other

John N

Tuesday 13th January 2004, 10:03

Hi Birdman2689.We have 6 feeders and a birdtable, visited by Chaffinch,Greenfinch,Goldfinch,Blue tit,Great tit,Coal tit, Long tail tit,Great spotted woodpecker,Robin, Dunnock,Wood pigeon,Collared doves, Magpie,Siskin and wren underneath the table. Sometimes a Sparrowhawk attempts to get a meal,3 Pesky Sguirrels but sadly not a House sparrow or Starling in sight.

Elizabeth Bigg

Tuesday 13th January 2004, 11:54

Eleven hanging feeders, one squirrel proof bird table, one squirrel proof ground feeder and one unprotected ground feeder. There is also a mealworm feeder attached to a window, also squirrel proof - so far! Finally - very important - a bird bath and a pond with a little cascade of running water, a favourite place for bathing as well as drinking.

Ashley beolens

Tuesday 13th January 2004, 11:59

er... 1 nut bag..1 seed bag..1 fat ball and 1 half loaf of bread, and the only 2 species I have had are 1 blue tit and a number of starlings but nothing this year!!

birdman

Tuesday 13th January 2004, 13:03

Hi bm,

2 fat balls, 1 red nutbag, 1 niger feeder, 1 nut feeder, 1 combined nut/seed feeder, 1 raised table, 1 ground table.

Nothing spectacular visiting, but we have a "core" of visitors, Goldfinch, Blue Tit, Blackbird and Dunnock, and the Starlings do the rounds most days.

Doug

Tuesday 13th January 2004, 13:19

3 seed feeders, niger seed feeder, fat ball tree, bird bath, ground feed, apple halves on lawn, hazelnuts on lawn for squirrels... empty bank balance.....

LuBird

Tuesday 13th January 2004, 14:02

11 feeders,3 birdbaths in the driveway,but this winter the birds are having such a rough time of it,I converted the floor of the deck into one large food table,plus 1 birdbath. Right now on the deck are 10 Mourning Doves,20 Juncos,20 to 30 Sparrows,2 Blue Jays and 1 female Cardinal. Oh, and peeking in the door,4 Squirrels. This will be a good day for birdwatching:)

Catherine

Tuesday 13th January 2004, 16:53

Currently have six Absolute "squirrel proof" (what a joke) feeders filled with sunflower hearts and any one of which have a squirrel hanging off it at any given time. Also have five niger thistle feeders that don't attract anything but birds, thank goodness. Also one suet feeder that attracts a lot of attention. My regular visitors...other than the squirrels....are cardinals, chickadees, tufted titmouse, nuthatches, goldfinch, other finch, sparrows, blue jays, downy and hairy woodpeckers, red belly woodpeckers, mourning doves, crows, red wing blackbirds, starlings, flickers, a flock of turkeys and probably some I've forgotten. In the summer I put out hummingbird and oriole feeders and get both regularly. There are also four birdbaths in summer but just one in winter with a heater in it. That attracts lots of American robins.

Looking out the window right this minute, I see a squirrel, two male and one female cardinal, a nuthatch, titmouse, goldfinch, and three blue jays. Oh, and the juncos, forgot them, who have finally figured out where the magic seed on the ground comes from and will fly up to the feeders.

Kitty.

Elizabeth Bigg

Tuesday 13th January 2004, 17:37

I have only had my new feeder pole for 2 months, but so far no squirrel has managed to get round the seed tray/squirrel baffle, and I regularly have at least two squirels in the garden. In the back ground there is my rather elderly bird table, and no squirrel has been seen on that in over 10 years.

At the time this photo was taken, the feeders contained mixed seed, black sunflower seeds, peanuts and niger seed. Now the mixed seed feeder has been replaced by a second niger feeder, and instead of the peanuts there are sunflower hearts.

GR Triever

Tuesday 13th January 2004, 18:28

1 mixed feed, 2 sunflower, 2 niger (thistle), and 2 suet feeders... plus for the squirrels, 2 feeder bowls, 1 miniature picnic table, and a tri-level feeder connected by ladders.

They seem to coexist very nicely in our little playground.

Art Thorn

Tuesday 13th January 2004, 20:50

Three Niger seed feeders which now have up to 80 Redpolls on and under them, and a couple of Goldfinches. Two sunflower seed feeders, one with stripped and one with black (oil) seeds and attract Chickadees, Nuthatches, the odd Blue Jay (usually much more of those around, but few this year) the Hairy and Downy Woodpeckers and a Suet feeder that attracts the woodpeckers, the Nuthatches and the Chickadees. I have two other feeders: one is this bunch of feeders I've just described, which attracts the Sharp Shinned Hawk, and the other is the ground, where I spread liberal amounts of Hen Scratch (which is very inexpensvie) and attracts the Juncos and the Mourning Doves. Other ground feeders, like my Cardinals, get droppings from the Sunflower feeders and also like some of the Hen Scratch. And a dozen Grey Squirrels which can't get to my feeders but can certainly keep the birds going up and down on the ground. ANd two Red Squirrels during the day (probably flying squirrels during the night, since I had one come down the chimney). And two neighbours dogs that high jump for the Suet feeder and sometimes succeed. And rabbits at night. Hah! So the next question is: How much feed do you go through in a year?

LuBird

Tuesday 13th January 2004, 21:01

gkrpepper

Tuesday 13th January 2004, 21:19

I refuse to tell you how much feed I go through during a year on grounds of self-incrimination;) Sounds as though you have a spectacular show going on in your back yard Art, but my big question is,what is Hen Scratch?
hi
lol at the self incriminating. I think every one is guilty in buying/paying to much on birds. Just yesterday i bought 2 more feeders and 50lbs each Sunflower and wild bird food, 10lbs of safflower seed, plus a variety of suet cakes.
Hen scratch is chickenfeed, used to be able to buy in the Agway stores, but since coming down here, i don't know. Anyway, its for the ground feeders. Hope that helps,
good birding
Gunter

Art Thorn

Tuesday 13th January 2004, 21:47

Gunter is right. I live in a rural community with lots of animal husbandry going on (soil is too poor for much more than hay). So there are at least 4 or 5 local farmer's feed stores that sell various things, including this hen scratch that is a mixture of different grains. It sells for about $12 CDN ($9 U.S.) for an 80 pound bag. Good down home cookin (nuthin fancy) for the birds. In a bad winter I go through about 500 lb of seed. I don't put any out in the summer or fall.

LuBird

Tuesday 13th January 2004, 21:51

That will help,Thanks Gunter. If it doesn't cost too much at our local feed store,I will try some. It is definitely getting pricey for Bird Seed in our area and I have been searching for alternatives. I have been using the Deer Corn from the sporting goods dept. to offset some of that pricey bird seed.

songbird6666

Thursday 15th January 2004, 21:48

I have 6 peanut feeders of varying kinds, 2 wildbird food feeders, 2 black sunflower ones, 1 sunflower hearts, 1 niger, 2 fat ball holders which have two and three fatballs in respectively, plus two fatballs hanging in their nets, plus ground dishes of mixed corn, and layers pellets (supposed to be for my chickens) and a dish full of wildbird seed (which my chickens eat in preference to the above!) In addition, I put out 4 slices of crumbled brown bread per day, a large cupful of sultanas, chopped apples and half a tin of sweetcorn. Occasionally, rice or pasta too. And yes, it costs me a fortune!

Art Thorn

Thursday 15th January 2004, 22:31

WOW! Can you tell me what tends to attact what? I have never put out peanuts (whole or shelled) nor raisins, apples, rice, pasta....

frank

Thursday 15th January 2004, 23:40

How many feeders do you have out now?? Right now I have 17 up I believe. Give or take a few! Just wondering how many feeders everyone uses.

Birdman

Hi Birdman,
I have a bird table for seed and scraps and 3 feeders hanging underneath
which are for peanuts,black sunflower seeds and a suet feeder.
There are 6 more peanut feeders,3 seed feeders,2 sunflowers,1 suet and a 3 foot suet log.I also have a squirrel feeder which was a good idea.
I have 2 bird baths,1 is a paint roller tray (new) which has a deep and shallow end.I spread dried fruit around the garden as well.5 years ago we had 30 sparrows taking over all the feeders but sadly we are down to 3 but other birds have increased to use the feeders.

Frank

Larry Lade

Friday 16th January 2004, 00:46

I have one raised platform feeder, 3 tube-type feeders for black-oil sunflower seeds, 1 tube feeder for niger seed, and one wire-mesh peanut feeder. Today I had House Sparrow, House Finch, American Goldfinch, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Northern Flicker, Dark-eyed Junco, Blue Jay and Mourning Dove.

Michael W

Friday 16th January 2004, 04:23

We have 4 hanging sunflower seed feeders, 1 raised sunflower seed feeder, 1 hanging niger seed feeder, 1 table, and 1 suet feeder that we can't find any suet for. Most feeders are hanging or on top of the old swing set that my siblings and I used to play on. Today there were 50 Mourning Doves, 60 Pine Siskins, American Goldfinches, Dark-eyed Juncos, Black-capped and Mountain Chickadees, Pygmy and Red-breasted Nuthatches, a White-breasted Nuthatch, House Finches, a Northern Flicker, and perhaps California Quail, and Downy or Hairy Woodpeckers. I didn't see all these today, but all are coming fairly regularly. Thankfully, there haven't been any House Sparrows or Starlings for a very long time.

Michael W

Elizabeth Bigg

Friday 16th January 2004, 10:50

Michael said: Thankfully, there haven't been any House Sparrows or Starlings for a very long time.

In the UK these birds are on the endangered list! I know some people still have plenty, but in some areas sparrows have not been seen for ages!

Tammie

Friday 16th January 2004, 16:53

Michael W

Friday 16th January 2004, 16:53

I'm sorry Elizabeth. I wish I could give you some from around here. There's almost nothing else down in town. On the CBC, there was one group of at least 150. We shook a bush and they came pouring out.

Please forgive me for my attitude towards them.

Michael

edrick owl

Thursday 22nd January 2004, 22:15

Hi Birdman who originally started this thread.

Gosh, there are some feeders around. Question is, how big are some of these yards/gardens? As for our contribution; 2 metal peanut feeders (1 large, 1 medium); 1 wooden peanut feeder, 1 suet log, 2 half coconut fat/seed/insect shells, scattered loose crushed peanuts and scattered raisins.

The metal feeders in our front garden usually attract our House Sparrow population, residing in our beech hedge. When we first came here we had around 12, last summer after fledging I counted just over 40. I think we are doing our bit to improve the numbers of this endangered species! So far this winter I have counted a maximum of 26 at any one time - goodness knows how many we will have come late summer. I suppose the rest of our garden is a typical British affair. We have Wrens, Robins, Greenfinches, Blue Tits, Great Tits and my personal favourites - Coal Tits. There are also Woodpigeons, Collared Doves, Ferel Pigeons, Blackbirds, Dunnocks, Chaffinches and some Tree Sparrows! Come summer we will also have Song Thrushes, Sparrowhawk and the visiting Swifts, House Martins and Swallows.

We do have a squirrel which passes through our garden, but has never gone for any of the food since we have lived here - almost three years. It does hide acorns etc in the graden, as we regulalry find them holed and empty whilst gardening and pottering about. Maybe it has enough to eat so does not need the birdfood?

During the next few weeks I will be building a bird table, but that will only be used for kitchen scraps and some catfood which the Blackbirds and Robins loved last year. I may try some maggots in summer as the birds love them when I go fishing.

While on this point of feeders etc, I would like to ask about the red nylon mesh suet/peanut bags. I have read on many occassions not to use them as some birds feet can get caught up in the mesh, but plenty of people seem to use them, and they are even shown in the photographs in reputable bird magazines. Does anyone have any views/comments on this subject?

Happy garden birdwatching.

edrick owl

Tammie

Friday 23rd January 2004, 03:29

Here, I have 3 platform feeders, 2 seed bells, 2 suet feeders, 2 tube feeders (with black oil sunflower seed), 2 - 3 tier gazebo style feeders and one suet ball feeder.

Put together it means lots of well fed birds!!

Adding to this list, we just purchased another feeder yesterday. It can hang or be pole mounted (I'll likely hang it) and it is shaped like a little barn. It's clear tho' with a green roof and is made by Perky Pet. My first official Perky Pet feeder! Does that mean I'm REALLY a birder now? ;)

AnnieW

Friday 23rd January 2004, 04:23

..... We do have a squirrel which passes through our garden, but has never gone for any of the food since we have lived here - almost three years. It does hide acorns etc in the graden, as we regulalry find them holed and empty whilst gardening and pottering about. Maybe it has enough to eat so does not need the birdfood?

edrick owl
In my experience (certainly my garden) there is no such thing as a squirrel that has had enough to eat !! Are you sure it is a squirrel and not some other creature in disguise .... or have you hypnotized it in some way ;)

Last weekend in an attempt to stop them mounting raids on the feeders, I bought a couple of sweetcorn squirrel logs - hoping that they would concentrate on those rather than the bird food (the tag line on this tasty treat being feed them don't fight them). Well it worked for a couple of hours, and when they had finished the logs they once again started on the birds peanut feeder !!!

Elizabeth Bigg

Friday 23rd January 2004, 10:14

In my experience (certainly my garden) there is no such thing as a squirrel that has had enough to eat !! Are you sure it is a squirrel and not some other creature in disguise .... or have you hypnotized it in some way ;)

Last weekend in an attempt to stop them mounting raids on the feeders, I bought a couple of sweetcorn squirrel logs - hoping that they would concentrate on those rather than the bird food (the tag line on this tasty treat being feed them don't fight them). Well it worked for a couple of hours, and when they had finished the logs they once again started on the birds peanut feeder !!!

The only place where squirels can get to the bird food in my garden is the single unprotected ground feeder. I only put porridge oats and mixed seed on this, and I reckon the squirrels get most of it - but at least porridge oats are cheap enough.

edrick owl

Sunday 25th January 2004, 20:49

Replying to Annie W, I think I may have had some sort of hypnotic encounter with the squirrel (that's what I will call it anyway).

I once saw it in the garden, and stood at the lounge window knocking, but to no avail. It simply looked up at me, and then carried on. Not putting up with that kind of behaviour where my feeders may have been in danger, I then opened the front door, and had another go at it, remarkably enough with the same effect. Now I was getting a bit upset.

Striding (?) outside, I moved towards it whilst I verbally chastised it. Same as before, it took notice, and as I approached, it ran up the willow tree, but not before stopping to give me a sort of "You don't frighten me" look.

Now I played my Ace. Standing at the base of the tree, as well as giving it a good telling off, I got carried away and started waving my arms in the air to frighten it (ha, ha) - and, having walking difficulties promptly fell over.

This is where I confused it, because the damn thing could not work out if I was mad with it, myself for letting me get so worked up, or for being so stupid and letting myself get into such a situation where I lost my balance.

I feel I have won, because it probably thinks that these scarecrows are getting beter, but just need a bit of fine tuning. The advantage is mine, and the acorn is in Mr Tufty's court!

Have fun,

Edrick Owl :brains:

AnnieW

Sunday 25th January 2004, 21:53

That must have been quite a site Edrick ... I can see why the squirel was confused :h?:

Have you thought of hiring yourself out as a garden squirrel scarer .... I'd pay good money for the service ;)

edrick owl

Monday 26th January 2004, 11:53

Having never experienced the problems encountered with squirrels and feeders, may I ask a simple naive question?

My vision of squirrel's and feeders lies I think, in some of the terminology used by some of the suppliers. To my simple mind there is a marked difference between the following phrases "squirrel proof" and the secondary "squirrel resistant".

Does proof not say what it means - impervious to penetration or damage or undesired action, as in not able to get in, break it or use it?

Resistant is obviously a lesser version of the above. E.g. It will defy access for some time (that being variable, depending on the squirrel's tenacity, ability and brute force) but will eventually fail.

Although not having seen them commit damage at first hand yet, I am aware of what they can do (my sister has just moved house and has them in her locality - they have just smashed three plastic feeders I gave her for her kids).

Surely in this technical day and age, I would have thought that an ideal item would have evolved by now. Some of them look pretty expensive for a non-functional piece of kit.

Pensively,

edrick owl. :h?:

AnnieW

Thursday 29th January 2004, 17:50

... Does proof not say what it means - impervious to penetration or damage or undesired action, as in not able to get in, break it or use it? ....

I started off with a couple of RSPB squirrel resistant "Challenger" nut feeders which were hanging on a branch of the apple tree. The squirrels viewed them as just that .... a challenge, and not a particularly difficult one.

A couple of weekends ago I swapped to a more robust RSPB squirrel proof "Defender" for the nuts. It did what it said on the packet in that they failed to chew there way through the lid, the tube or the metal hanger .... but they did manage to push it off the branch and as it hit the ground the lid had obvioualy come off, spilling the contents to the great satisfaction of the squirrels.

So we decided to suspended it from the branch via a long thin chain that we bolted to the branch ..... they have now started chewing through the branch just above the bolt. They haven't made it through yet ... but, give 'em time !!!

jordan

Tuesday 3rd February 2004, 01:10

Hello Birdman,
You won't believe this but I also have 17 feeders.
jordan

Mallard44

Sunday 8th February 2004, 19:37

How many feeders do you have out now?? Right now I have 17 up I believe. Give or take a few! Just wondering how many feeders everyone uses.

Birdman

I have two tube feeders(sunflower and niger) a suet block, a woodpecker block, and a tray feeder. The tray feeder is a large plant saucer on a 4 ft. stand. A mourning dove seems to have taken up residence there. I am going to make a nesting cone and place it in a tree.

snowyowl

Thursday 19th February 2004, 14:51

I'm a bit late coming to this thread but here goes anyway.
1. Peanut feeder (Chickadees,woodpeckers); 2. a large triple tube feeder with two kinds of sunflower and millet; 3. a suet feeder; 4. a Niger feeder; 5. a squirrel-proof Black-oil Sunflower feeder (set to allow only smaller birds, very popular with Redpolls and A. Goldfinches). 6. a peanut butter log; 7. a ground feeder for cracked corn; 8. a platform feeder for a seed mix and sometimes fruit; 9. a hopper feeder that I have been neglecting lately because it wasn't getting much action. Other years I've had a hopper feeder for saflower seed hoping to pull in a stray Cardinal but it's never worked so this year I haven't bothered. Other years as well I've put half oranges on the apple trees hoping for an Oriole but again no luck and now Hurricane Juan has wiped out the trees.

intellectual

Friday 20th February 2004, 02:44

Hi All,
I have 13 feeders: comprising of 3-niger, 4-seed and 6 nut feeders. Fat balls, apples,raisins sultanas. Two bird tables & two bird baths. Birds that come include upto 14 House Sparrows, had 38 Starlings on Tuesday, usually 9-16 Greenfinches, Blue Tit, Great Tit, L.T.Tit,Dunnock, Robin, Collared Doves, Wood Pigeon, Crow, Jackdaws, Common Gulls,Chaffinches, Blackie's and Magpie. Last year got pair of Siskins and Goldfinch.
I do the BTO Garden Bird Watch as well.

Intellectual.

intellectual

Tuesday 2nd March 2004, 22:40

Hi all,

Put three Goldfinch feeders in the garden three weeks ago. Today at last one Goldfinch, Yippee!!

Only problem is now that one of the Blue Tit's as found a way of extracting the niger seed, was watching it for ages. I thought that only the Goldies had a narrow enough beak to get into the minute hole. I don't mind which birds take what, there are thirteen assorted feeders.

Intellectual

PS: Today 4th March, saw three Siskin's [2 male & 1 female] in garden, the two males were on the Goldfinch feeders, while the female sat in the Lilac tree waiting. The Goldfinch has come evry day since Monday.
PPS: Today 15th March, saw three Siskin's [all male] and two Goldfinches on the Niger seed feeders. Yesterday twenty Greenfinches were biding their time sat in the front garden tree while the heavy rain ceased.

Elizabeth Bigg

Tuesday 2nd March 2004, 23:10

Hi all,

Put three Goldfinch feeders in the garden three weeks ago. Today at last one Goldfinch, Yippee!!

Only problem is now that one of the Blue Tit's as found a way of extracting the niger seed, was watching it for ages. I thought that only the Goldies had a narrow enough beak to get into the minute hole. I don't mind which birds take what, there are thirteen assorted feeders.

Intellectual

Well I put up a niger feeder and 2 goldfinches came in a few days - then more and more until there were 19 (after I added a second niger feeder). Then the siskins arrived until I had 72!! a couple of weeks ago, and the goldfinches were crowded out. Now siskin numbers are dropping (to 50) so I'm hoping the goldfinches will get more of a look-in now!

Carson

Wednesday 3rd March 2004, 23:28

Regarding the squirrel-chat above, I'll attempt to cheer your resistance efforts on with a couple of tales of adventures we experienced while working in the Canadian National Parks in the Rockies.

The problem was with black bears who mistook garbage cans for bear-feeding-stations.

The first idea was to erect a high steel pole and dangle the garbage container from a great big hook. It was such a good idea that a hundred or so of these bear-proof swinging garbage can hangers were erected, but, by the time the last ones were in place, the bears had discovered the real joy of fast-food-while-swinging. They just loved it! They'd get right on board and have a bears' version of luncheon in a garden swing.

Phooey. So then one Park insisted a local restaurant spend quite a chunk of money creating a high-fence area that corralled all its garbage bins behind a high wall of massive (read, "expensive") steel mesh. The Park provided all the plans, but it was mandatory the restaurant comply. Which it did. Along came the first bear, who wondered why there was a big new fence, um, beside the wooden power pole...which the bear climbed in, oh, ten seconds or so, and then dropped himself down inside the enclosure.

Last story: Finally the Park Forces got tough. They invented a sort-of dumpster which was all heavy steel, and which had a lid which could only be released if a HUMAN BEING slid a hand into a slot and then turned a lever inside. It worked! Totally bear-proof. Ah...only one detail: it was people-proof too. We spied from out of sight. No one read the directions, because you don't DO that when tossing a bit of garbage away. Almost everyone put their hand into the slot and didn't know what to do next. The inevitable subsequent behavior was to glance around furtively--"is anybody watching me having trouble opening a damn garbage bin lid??"--and then suavely walk away, garbage still in hand or deposited quickly in the bushes nearby.

In pitting your human IQs against the squirrels', you are following in a long tradition. Um, the squirrels have the higher IQ, in case you haven't quite learned yet.

intellectual

Tuesday 6th April 2004, 00:05

Novello

Tuesday 6th December 2005, 22:42

Interesting reading about other peoples feeders.

1. I have a pole with a nut feeder and a coconut fat feeder.
2. A bird table with anothe coconut fat feeder hanging below.
3. A plastic 3 compartment gazebo type hanging feeder.
4. A small tubular window feeder that was not touched I have attached to the fence.

Ours is a small garden surrounded by a wooden fence. We have shrubs all around.

I am getting some success now after months waiting for my 'visitors'

I would like to be able to have all feeders in the centre of the garden and not attached to the fence.
I feel that 1 and 2 are more attractive to the birds as they can fly to them from any direction but those attached to the fence are more difficult.
I think it would also be better if the fence was higher.

I mix all the foods except for the nut feeder. The SF seeds . peanuts and niger seeds do not seem very popular.
I am thinking that I may get better results if I keep all the feeds separate and in their own feeders, then at least I would have a better idea of what I should provide most of.

I am intending to put more feeders in place.

I would like to use a ground feeder but always worry about attracting rodents - rats terrify me.

I do envy some of you who get such a variety of species. :bounce:

GDC

Wednesday 7th December 2005, 17:37

I mix the sunflowers and safflowers together but the thistle and the suet are hanging alone. Could somebody tell me about the coconut feeder (possibly how to make it or what it looks like so I could purchase it. I have 6 hanging feeders and one trough, with a spot for water that I sprinkle some feed on. It can be viewed @ www.wrmn.net

-25

Wednesday 7th December 2005, 19:16

I have 2 bird baths, however one is filled with seeds, I take out cups and cupsabnd cups of seeds daily to them, mix them into the one bird bathe feeder, Regular seeds, black sunflower seeds and a mix or berries and nuts, also I add in corn. there is a ladder connecting the bird bathe and the bird bathe feeder and another ladder to reach them from the ground (for the squirrels), I also have 2 suet feeders. I got other bird feeders just haven't put them out yet because I am in need of more Shephards Hooks to hang them on.