How do you keep bird feeder and birdbath poles straight? In a perfect world, you would simply insert the pole upright into the ground and call it a day. But poles don’t always stay straight. Often feeder poles will begin to lean. Here are a few low-impact ideas for keeping your bird feeder poles straight.
When buying a bird feeder, be sure to consider how you will hang it. While they are typically built with a hook or loop on the top for hanging, you may find that to hang a bird feeder, you actually need an extra hook.
Are grackles and starlings using the baffle to get to your pole-mounted upside-down suet feeders? I have two tricks to keep these nuisance birds from using the baffle as a staging spot to get to suet hung on poles!