About two months ago, I purchased a RollerFeeder (rollerfeeder.com) as it is promoted to keep larger birds like grackles from the seed. The feeder has lived up to this claim, but cardinals thus far will not use it, and other songbirds are making fewer trips to the feeder. Does anyone else have experience with this product, and if so, do you know of anything I can do to encourage cardinals to feed?
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- Thread starter raleigh47
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Two birds in one.
Another design that's new to me. I suppose the first question is CAN cardinals use the new feeder? They are not that far off grackle size after all, and I've always found that they were borderline size and weight at all squirrel proof feeders. I've also always found cardinals to be extra timid around feeders in the first place, perhaps their extra caution comes with being so brightly coloured in a world of predators.
Anyway, since all species seem to be avoiding it a bit, I would think that the primary problem with the feeder is that it's both new and different. Wild birds do not like those things but they do become comfortable with them given time.
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