Each one holds two suet cakes. One has a tail prop that makes it difficult for any bird that can’t cling to a vertical surface and balance with its tail (i.e. non-woodpecker types), and the other has a cage outside that allows only small birds to enter (e.g. nuthatch, small woodpecker, Carolina wren, chickadee). I doubt any feeder is completely starling and grackle proof, but I’m damned well not going to make it easy for the greedy bastards! I’ll still fill one of the suet feeders on the trees, but the other is going to be modified before I put anything in it because it’s just a waste; it all goes to the starlings. A curse upon those who imported the hateful, unwelcome starling!

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P.S. No picture, but I also got a hanging tray feeder when I went to Buchheit earlier this week for suet. My birds are costing a lot of money, but their job is to be alive and make me happy, and they do it well!