Product review for Songbird Select Feeder Intro Text, instructions, policies Overall Rating: Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers Sort Reviews: Newest | Oldest | Highest Rating | Lowest Rating   :: Viewing page 1 of 1  -  Monday, March 16, 2009 Squirrels Slide Down & Off this Feeder! Reviewed By: Candice Jensen (Hatfield, PA) This feeder looks Plain and Unpromising in the photo, but it is a Winner! It has some really Effective anti-squirrel design elements. The outer surface of the seed tube is so smooth as to be SLICK: our yard's BEST, most athletic, and most determined squirrels Slide like an egg cooked in butter in a brand new T-Fal (or Teflon, Silverstone, etc.) saute pan. Honestly!. It has 2 feeder mini-trays (a metal protrusion under each of 2 ports, one on each side of the bottom of seed tube); these "trays" replace the standard peg or loop perches installed next to a seed-access openings on traditional tube feeders. Feeding birds stand on top of the protruding metal "tray" and eat seed that has been gravity-fed into a concave center portion (of the little tray). The Squirrels, by contrast (!), can NOT get a grip on the tray's edge, NOR can they sit on the tray protrusions themselves in order to gobble-vacuum the seed as per usual!! The average Squirrel-Nutkin is too Big and needs to be able to grip Something in order to settle in for a feast. NOTHING to Grip onto, though, on this nifty feeder!! No squirrel-friendly shapes or textures. Our songbird/small bird "regulars" have had to Learn how to orient themselves on the little protruding trays. Once they got the "hang" of the new shape, they seemed comfortable & happy to stay & eat a while. If there is a Down-Side to this feeder, it is that a rambunctious bird can poke into the seed supply (on the little tray or into opening in the tube wall) with his beak or toes and knock seed down onto the ground. So far (we've had the feeder about 4 months) the amount tossed out by such birds has been a tolerable amount--certainly much LESS than what one of our wiley squirrels was able to do with older feeders. Our ground-feeders--squirrels, doves, jays-- clean-up the spillage for us;and our "balance-of-payments" between birds and squirrels (i.e., where our se