

The wire mesh can expand with peanuts protruding through the wire holes, though perfectly acceptable as the wire allows it to.

Wire bird feeders can be light while becoming heavier with a load of peanuts. Wire bird feeders can be sold as a seed, suet nugget or mealworms bird feeder - in all it still remains a spruced up peanut feeder, promoted for other uses. Similarly, a wire bird feeder is almost always going to be compatible with peanuts, with no compatibility issues at all. Put peanuts in a wire bird feeder knowing what type of wild bird peanuts you use, the nuts will remain secured behind the wire yet still accessible.

I used to only associate wire style bird feeders for use with peanuts only, and while this remains true - nuts continue to be used in this reliable steel mesh bird feeder with ease.īirds are used to tackling a peanut feeder with a small hole wire mesh surround birds would cling to the side of the mesh exterior in any direction to feed - of which an upside down position is a trait in Chickadees or Woodpeckers. How birds will feed on any of these wild bird feed is to cling on the wire itself, in doing so at any direction, including upside down. What you put in a wire bird feeder can be all this, with an idea of putting in a few of each. With dried mealworms this can be a hit or miss, and while mealworms can be put in a wire bird feeder, the size of the gaps in the wire varies - thus it can be easy or made harder for birds to pull dried mealworms out. New on the block are suet nuggets in soft or hard form, as you put the suet balls in a wire bird feeder for birds to peck at them while avoiding birds taking the whole ball away. And on the subject of seeds, the only seed compatible with a wire bird feeder is sunflower seeds. Offer nuts in a wire feeder knowing its a match made in heaven. Peanuts remain a favorite with seed eating birds, and there's a lot of them. What you decide to put in a wire bird feeder will be something that is always going to go down well with common backyard birds.
