Triple Tube Bird Feeders
Tube feeders are some of the most popular bird feeders sold
today. They are relatively easy to fill, and most of them
have a clear tube body so that you can easily check the seed
level without taking the feeder off its mount. With the
simple tube design, usually they are easy to get inside to
clean with a hose or a brush. You can find tube feeders sized
for different types of sees, such as nyjer feeders, so you
can attract different birds with different tube feeders. They
are simple to mount, often hanging from a pole or a simple
hook, so you can put them where the squirrels can't get them.
Advantages of Tripe Tube Feeders
Triple tube feeders are great because they have many of those
tube feeder advantages, but take them one step further. One
obvious advantage is that the amount of bird seed that the
feeder can hold is much larger, so if you have an active
feeder, you don't need to refill it as often. And because you
will have more seed and more room for perches, you can have
more birds feeding at one time, which can be quite
impressive, when they are all active.
Another advantage with three tubes is that you can vary the
type of seed in each of the tubes. You can do this with a
feeder that has the same style of feeder ports on each tube,
for example, choosing to use strictly sunflower seed in one
of the tubes. But in addition, you can find triple tube
feeders that have different types of tubes in one feeder, for
example one of them may be sized to handle nyjer seed, with
the smaller slots as feeding ports in one of the tubes, which
can really vary the types of birds that you can attract to
one feeder.
As with many feeders, you may have to deal with squirrels..
Some feeders have a "squirrel resistant" top, but often these
are made from plastic, and some have plastic tips that are
painted a copper color. True
copper bird feeders are
much more resistant to chewing and destruction by
squirrels, so if this is a need for you be sure to get
the real copper. For some it may be better to get a
caged bird feeder that
has a wire mesh around the feeding port, even though
that may keep out some of the larger birds as well.
Manufacturers of triple tube bird feeders include Opus,
Duncraft, Perky Pet, and Droll Yankees.