Egg terracotta bird feeder

4.6 out of 5

5

We are lucky to see a wide variety of birds in our garden, and chose this feeder for mealworms. It worked - within the first 15 minutes, we saw blue tits, great tits, a robin, We've hung the feeder under a branch of a lilac bush, so there is lots of cover in the bush if the resident sparrow hawk shows up!
Very nicely made feeder and decorative too.

Arrived with a little chip on the inside edge of one of the circular openings but to be honest I'm too impatient to send it back for a replacement as the egg looks great and I can't wait to put it up in the garden! I can just turn it so the chip isn't visible and its not a safety risk to visiting birds. Overall a great lovely sculptural piece that serves a practical purpose too, I'm very happy with it and hope the birds will be too. On reading the other reviews I think I might need to turn an old pot saucer upside-down, drill a hole in the bottom to hang it over the top to protect the feed from getting too wet, like a weather dome but that's a cheap and easy solution. hoping it is frost resistant come winter time, fingers crossed. Thanks RSPB.

...and they get everywhere!

I wanted a safer place for the smaller birds but only the starlings do the gymnastics required to get in and out of this feeder. I imagine the smaller birds might feel quite vulnerable in the enclosed space - the food drops to the bottom of the 'egg'.

It is also quite difficult to fill. Form over function, unfortunately! I've given up on it.

I like this ceramic egg feeder a lot, as do the many birds in my garden, especially the Blue Tits, Great Tits, Starlings and Jackdaws. One problem I find with it though is that when it rains, the seed gets wet and clumps in the bottom. It would be good if there were some kind of small umbrella shaped protection that could be installed over it to keep the rain out, something like what comes with the Robin feeder. This is also true for the ceramic apple feeder.

Thisis really nice quality and looks good but the birds just don't seem to like it. Even the starlings won't go near! My old bird feeder (the old RBPB ones) used to get raided every day but the new plastic holders and this egg get rare visitors :(