RSPB Ultimate seed tray

3.625 out of 5

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These are brilliant!

My old trays were flat (i.e. at the same level as the bottom of the feeder) and had a small raised lip around the outside. When big birds such as pigeons landed on them the tray tipped alarmingly and all its contents went over the ground - not exactly ideal!

This design has more of a trough, which goes much lower than the bottom of the feeder - and, as a consequence, a taller lip around the outside. There is SO much less spillage it's untrue!

Also, the size of these trays (22 cm diameter, from memory) is just spot-on. They're big enough to work effectively, but small enough - if you take the tray off, and then tilt it diagonally - to fit it under the roof of a standard-size bird table, if (say) you want to empty the content of the tray onto the bird table itself.

I bought a couple of these because 2 of my old trays had cracked, but have now decided to replace all my trays with these.

Good quality construction too - and I thought reasonably-priced, by comparison with the other trays on the market.

Work just fine but the plastic screw is the weak spot -- it would be great if we could buy spare screws rather than having to buy a whole new tray when they break.

I have a feeder tray on my ultimate rspb feeder which works fine so I bought one for my other rspb feeder - it says it fits other models too- BUT the screw is not long enough as the base is slightly different so please can you make the screws longer so it fits more models?

These trays do as specified. They catch spare seed and give the birds a larger feeding area. My negative point though is they also catch all the bird poo as well so had to clean them every evening! I do have a lot of birds visiting my garden though including around 20 starlings (which I love) so if you just have smaller birds might not be such a problem.