Gazebo Bird Feeders - Dress Up the Back Yard

There are all sorts of decorative bird feeders, but just about the most popular style sold are the gazebo bird feeders. These are pretty popular both with homeowners and birds as well.

So, what exactly makes a gazebo. It's often a free standing structure, with regularly spaced sides, typically it's shaped as an octagon. It has a roof, sometimes ornately shaped, that protects the underside from weather, and has sides that are either open or screened or glass.

They are open sided typically, lending themselves to a fly through design that makes it easy to access for the birds. Fashioned after the more traditional gazebo designs that have been popular in the US since the days of the founding fathers, often they are open 8 sided designs, and function much like a traditional platform bird feeder. You can place the bird seed directly on them and the birds can easily reach the seed.

In order to avoid problems with squirrels, it's best if these gazebo feeders are mounted off the ground and away from structures that the squirrels can climb and leap from. If you don't have a simple place to hang one like the overhang on you house, or near something like a bay window that will give a view of it, try mounting in on a bird feeder pole. If you still have a problem with squirrels, then you can add a squirrel baffle to your pole which helps make the job of climbing the pole a little more difficult for the squirrels (they always seem to find some way around the barriers we set up.

Give a gazebo feeder a try in your yard, it will add a nice touch to your backyard ambiance and attract our fine feathered friends!

The type of birds your feeder will attract depends on the size of the feeder and the seed you put in it. We use your basic wild bird seed and add black sunflower seeds to it to attract song birds. Make sure you keep your feeder clean of debris that can gather because just like us, the birds like their feeder to be clean.