Something different...
On the 12-11-2007 Rob Hurst from Wild Bird Center of Willmington (DE) wrote to us:
What is the same or similar about every tube feeder on the market?
The perch?it?s always straight, or limits access to 180? of approach. Some perches are smaller, which allows for discrimination against larger birds that might plant themselves on the perch and prevent the little guys from getting their fair share. However, some birds seem uncomfortable perching on a feeder for their dining enjoyment. Why? Heck if I know. But, I can tell you that if I had to crouch down and then contort myself in order to reach back over my shoulder so that I can stick my head into a seed port for a tasty treat, I?d be a lot leaner ? or I?d drop to the ground and scavenge for things that the other birds have dropped.
In the last issue of Birding Business there was a small ?blurb? on a European Company, CJ Wildlife. The small introduction to this company led me to their web site. What I saw was different ? a larger perch that allows a bird to approach from 270? and eat comfortably facing forward (hmmm, cardinals on a tube feeder) ? this is something that I knew my ?Staff? could sell.
Anyway, I ordered some of their stuff?
The goods arrived on Tuesday?I dismantled each type of feeder, attached all sorts of attachments ? pole adapters, CJ Wildlife trays, Droll Yankees trays, Aspects trays, seed catchers?if it?s in my store and can work with a tube feeder, I tried it out. Guess what?!?! Everything worked with it!
So, I got it all loaded into the system and on the floor for the start of business on Wednesday (traditionally my WORST sales day of the week).
By noon, the first one left my store?it was a Nyjer feeder and I sold it. Actually, it wasn?t much of a sales effort, the customer sold it to herself by putting it next to other feeders and noticing that the seed port on the CJ allowed the bird to access ALL of the seed in the feeder, while the other prevented access once the seed level fell below the small hole-line (Be realistic, the birds aren?t going to bend down and pull a seed from the hole at the very bottom ? If you?ve got a picture of that, I?ll pay you for it).
By 5 pm, two more of these feeders left my store.
Cheers!
Rob Hurst
Wild Bird Center of Wilmington
3100 Naamans Road, Ste #5
Wilmington, DE 19810
302-478-7337
wilmington@wildbird.com
Slightly edited by CJWildlife
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