About The Feeder Log
Feeders, seed, and what actually holds up outdoors.
There is a great deal written about which birds come to a feeder. There is much less about the feeder itself: how fast it gets filthy, what the plastic looks like after a winter with a determined squirrel, whether the thing can be taken apart and scrubbed at all, and how many seasons it lasts before the answer stops being worth the trouble.
That is the gap this site is for. The Feeder Log is a running record of the equipment side of feeding birds. What a feeder costs, how it holds up, what it takes to keep it clean, and when it is worth replacing rather than repairing.
Who writes it
I am June Hollis, and I write everything here. I am not a biologist, a wildlife rehabilitator, or an ornithologist, and I am not going to write as though I were. What I do is pay close attention to the hardware, and I have a low tolerance for advice that has clearly never been tested against a wet week or a hungry squirrel.
Where this site describes bird behaviour, which species prefer which seed, when a bird is likely to show up, what a species eats in winter, it comes from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, the National Audubon Society, and state wildlife agencies, and it is cited so you can check it. Where it describes equipment, it says plainly whether we have handled the thing or are reading specifications like everyone else. Those are two different kinds of claim and this site will not blur them.
About the photographs
The backyard photographs on this site were taken by yuanyuan, who feeds birds in North America, and are used with permission. Every image carries that credit in its caption.
They are not our photographs and they are not our yards, and you will never find a caption here suggesting otherwise. A photograph is a claim about where information came from, so we would rather tell you exactly whose yard you are looking at than let an image imply something we have not earned.
How this site makes money
Eventually through affiliate links, and there are none on the site today. When they arrive they will be disclosed on the page they appear on, and they will not change what gets recommended. We would rather run a page with no link on it than write a recommendation we do not mean.
Getting in touch
Corrections are welcome and acted on. If something here is wrong, outdated, or missing a source, write to hello@thefeederlog.com.