Henry Bell Select Peanut Feeder

Henry Bell Select Peanut Feeder – 20cm

The Select range is Henry Bell's plain working feeder: 20cm high, 6.5cm across, fully recyclable, and priced to be replaced rather than restored. The peanut version is a metal mesh tube with ring perches built into the frame, so birds have somewhere to stand rather than having to cling to the mesh itself.

A push-down lid opens the top. That sounds like a small thing until February, when you are refilling feeders in gloves and a fiddly screw cap is exactly what makes you give up and go back indoors.

Performance & Benefits

• 20cm high and 6.5cm wide — compact enough for a crowded feeding station arm.
• Metal mesh body, sized so birds flake peanuts off rather than take them whole.
• Ring perches built into the frame for a steadier stance while feeding.
• Push-down lid that opens one-handed.
• Fully recyclable, in keeping with the rest of the Select range.
• One of six matching Select feeders, so a station can be kitted out consistently.

Suitable For

• Whole peanuts, peanut granules and suet nuggets.
• Blue tits, great tits, long-tailed tits, greenfinches, goldfinches, nuthatches and great spotted woodpeckers.
• Small gardens and balconies where a 32cm feeder is more than you need.
• Feeding stations, bird table hooks and branches.
• Not for seed mixes, sunflower hearts or nyger. The Select range has a separate feeder for each of those, and nyger in particular needs its own fine-mesh feeder.

How to Use

• Push the lid down to open it, fill with peanuts and close.
• Hang in an open spot with cover a few metres away, out of a cat's jumping range.
• Wash it out every couple of weeks in hot water with a bird-safe hygiene spray.
• Dry it fully before refilling.
• Remove damp or mouldy nuts rather than adding fresh ones on top.

Specification

• Henry Bell product code H040125. 20cm high, 6.5cm wide.
• Metal mesh body with integrated ring perches and a push-down lid.
• Henry Bell describe the Select range as fully recyclable.
• Henry Bell publish no weight, mesh gauge or peanut capacity for this feeder, so none is stated here.

Care & Caution

• Whole peanuts belong behind mesh. Offered loose, a whole nut carried to a nest can choke a chick.
• Keep peanuts in this feeder rather than on a table right through the breeding season.
• Replace the feeder if the mesh splits. A torn panel lets whole nuts out.