Peckish Suet & Peanut Feeder

Garden birds sort themselves out by what they can hold on to. Put food on a table and one crowd arrives; put it behind mesh and a completely different set turns up, because clinging is a skill not every species has. A feeder is really a decision about who gets to eat in your garden.

This is the mesh kind: a perforated stainless steel tube, which Peckish point out lets several birds feed at once rather than queueing at a single port. It takes either suet pellets or peanuts, so the same feeder covers the high-fat winter food and the year-round one without you buying twice. Stainless steel is the part worth paying for on anything that lives outdoors through a British winter, and it is the one material claim Peckish make here.

• Perforated stainless steel
• Suitable for suet pellets or peanuts
• Several birds can feed at once
• Peckish list this design as available in large at 30cm
• Sold singly

The size on the shelf and the size in the description do not agree. Peckish's own text says the feeder is available in large at 30cm; the listing gives this line as a plain single with no measurement against it, so we cannot promise you the 30cm one specifically. No mesh aperture, no capacity and no hanging fixings are published either, and mesh aperture is the specification that matters most — it decides whether peanuts come out whole, which is the thing you do not want in spring when there are chicks about. Ask us and we will measure the stock we hold.

Who it's for: anyone who already feeds peanuts or suet pellets and is replacing a plastic feeder that has gone brittle, or setting up a second station away from the first.