Tray feeders are the most versatile of feeders; You can feed birds more types of food at one time. Tray feeders can also have a great view of the feeding birds. A tray feeder should be the centerpiece of your backyard feeders. I would recommend a high quality drawer feeder if your first purchase, if you are just starting to feed birds. With the tray feeders is the food in sight so that the birds, even migrants, to a new feeding station quickly will attract.
Tray feeders are an investment, the price of a well built may seem high, but good construction and solid materials are worth the money because the feeder for years. I have one of mine for more than 14 years. When buying a wooden one was built with screws, glue and solid wood. If you prefer a plastic, which are easier to clean, make sure that it is made of strong solid material. I the recycled plastic ones, which you can buy.
Hanging tray Feeder:
If you are going to have only one tray feeder a hanging would be the best. They can be hung on a pole or a tree limb and are easy to move if you want to put them in a different area of your garden. Don’t forget a dome or some kind of squirrel guard.
Post Mount Feeder:
If you are an area where you a permanent tray feeder sites can have, I would use a post mount with a squirrel baffle. The post mounts are more stable, to attract larger birds, and you can have a larger feeder. A type I has a tray and a suet cake feeder combined.
Fly through the Feeder:
This type feeder is usually post mounted because of its size. The benefits of flying through the roof the seed drier in wet weather and the birds themselves more protected. You will see some birds here you won’t see on the open feeders. There are even squirrel resistant types of the feeders.
Grounds tray Feeders:
These are usually open feeders with short legs. I use this for ground feeding birds (dove, quail, grouse, native sparrows, towhees, juncos, ducks) and for the provision of specific foods, grit, or salt. I got one with cracked corn which I behind some bushes as far from my other feeders as possible. This is derived from the squirrels, grackles and Blackbirds.
One of the nice things about tray feeders is that you have a large variety of food can offer. A high quality mix of black oil sunflower, safflower, peanut, white millet and Canary seed sharing is a good place to start for the hanging or post mount feeders. You can also try dried cherries, grapes, raisins, chopped suet or suet treats. Keep a check on what the birds in your area as the best and stop feeding what they don’t like or what you don’t want to attract birds to feed.
Tray feeders are the best way to attract many birds and a lot of different birds. They are also the best way to offer a wider variety of food. Will you how easy they are to use. It is time you bought a tray feeder.