Supa Caged Peanut Feeder

A whole peanut is a choking risk to a fledgling, which is the real reason peanuts belong behind mesh rather than loose on a table. The cage that keeps squirrels out does the same job at the other end of the scale: birds can only take a small piece of the nut at a time.

Supa build this one on a powder-coated steel frame with an outer cage around the peanut tube, so a squirrel or a larger bird cannot reach past it. It fills through a flip-top lid rather than by dismantling anything, and the outer cage gives smaller birds somewhere enclosed to feed. Approximate dimensions are 26cm high by 17cm wide by 17cm deep, plus the handle.

• Powder-coated steel frame with an outer cage
• 26cm (H) x 17cm (W) x 17cm (D), plus handle
• Flip-top lid for filling
• Intended to deter squirrels and larger birds such as pigeons and doves
• Supa list blue tits, chaffinches, greenfinches, goldfinches, woodpeckers and house sparrows among the birds that take peanuts

On the word "deter". Supa are careful to say the cage deters squirrels rather than defeats them, and their own hints sheet assumes yours will keep trying — they suggest keeping the feeder out of jumping range of trees and adding a tree hook to increase the drop. No mesh gauge or aperture size is published anywhere on this, and that is the measurement that would actually tell you whether a determined grey squirrel gets a paw through.

Who it's for: anyone whose peanut feeder is being emptied by squirrels or wood pigeons rather than by small birds, and gardens where fledglings are about in spring.