I bought this feeding station on the recommendation of cmh4135 - thank you cmh! My reason for buying was that I am a keen photographer, so wanted to attract birds to my garden for photographing them. My reason for buying this particular type was that we have a very small garden, so I didn't want the traditional table that takes up quite a lot of room. **What is it?** The central pole is tubular metal and, as you can see from the picture above, it has a range of arms and holders which slot on to the pole. These come with various amounts of fittings, but mine is exactly as in the picture, with two long arms, one shorter one, and holders for a water trough ...  Read the complete review

Attracting birds into the garden seems to be a favourite British pastime. I recall, as a child, throwing bread and cake crumbs for the birds and hanging bacon rind from branches. These days, though, bread and cake crumbs and certainly bacon rind, seem scarce in supply and a whole industry has been born around feeding the garden birds. After losing three trees to disease in our garden we noticed an appreciable drop in bird visitors to the garden. With a young child I decided that the time was ripe to get something to encourage the birds back into the garden. I looked at traditional bird tables but these seemed unnecessarily large and took up a lot of ground ...  Read the complete review