"Choice" Sanctuary Range

These products uniquely allow you to choose and change which birds are welcomed to your feeders and which birds and animals are excluded. Different "Choice" sanctuary products are available to protect tube feeders, ground feeders and bird tables. At today's wild birdfood prices it makes sense. The protective mesh gaps can be widened or reduced easily at any time.

The Tube Sanctuary protects any tube feeder (seed/nut/nyjer/metal/plastic) up to about 45cm (18" long) and, for shorter feeders, has space to protect fatballs/foodblocks/mealworms placed on the seed tray base. Existing tube feeders can therefore be placed in a squirrel-free zone.

The Mini Ground Sanctuary protects a ground area 48cm x 48cm (about 19" x 19") at a minimum cost.

The Ground Sanctuary protects a ground area 48cm x 48cm (about 19" x 19") and can also hold several tube feeders and/or fatball containers hanging from its 50cm
(19¾") height. Combined with the bird table support system it can protect bird tables up to 48cm x 48cm (about 19" x 19") and with a table to roof apex height of up to 51cm (20") - which covers most tables.

The approximate mesh widths which different species can pass through are as follows:-

25mm Blue Tit, Coal Tit, Marsh Tit,
28mm Wren, Great Tit, Pied Flycatcher, Goldfinch, Dunnock, Siskin
30mm upwards Young Grey Squirrel (April-Sept)
32mm Robin, House Sparrow, Tree Sparrow, Nuthatch, Chaffinch, Greenfinch, Bullfinch
36mm upwards Adult Grey Squirrel
40mm Redstart, Blackbird
45mm Starling
50mm Great Spotted Woodpecker, Song Thrush, Pied Wagtail
Over 60mm Magpie, Pigeon, Seagull, Jackdaw.

The tube feeders, ground feeders, fatballs etc. shown with the Choice sanctuaries (and with all the other products in the Meripac range) are not included in the sale of the products illustrated.