This is a simple tray feeder. I secured aluminum screening and hardware cloth to the bottom of the cedar tray and filled it with oil-striped sunflower seeds. I got the design idea from an Etsy search for bird feeders.
This is a suet feeder than can hold two suet cakes. I stapled hardware cloth to the sides of a cedar frame. I also have a suet feeder I made from an old branch of a tree (yes, I hold on to random things but always with a purpose in mind!). I drilled additional holes in the wood and filled them with suet. This is much more time consuming than simply slipping the suet into a feeder but it's a lot more interesting.
And after seeing a squirrel happily sitting in the bird feeder I made earlier this year to sit on the deck rail, I had to do a design adjustment and make it a hanging tray feeder (again using the aluminum screening and hardware cloth). The squirrels have still figured out how to get into it, so it may get mounted to a 4x4 post in the yard at some point but it works for now.
Even though we put them up late in the season, when most of the birds were already headed out of town, we have enjoyed many of the year-round birds including House Finches, Chickadees, Nuthatches, Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers, and Blue Jays. I can't wait to see who comes next spring.
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