"Choice" Guard 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 Guard Range protects shorteror longer tube feeders and is available either with or without a tube feeder included. A budget version of the longer tube guard is also available.

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

The Ground Guard 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 (19 ¾") 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 gaps which can be passed through by birds is as follows:-

24mm -30 mm Blue Tit, Coal Tit, Marsh Tit, Robin. Goldfinch, Siskin, Pied Wagtail, Dunnock, Pied Flycatcher
30mm - 35mm Nuthatch, Greenfinch, Bullfinch, Chaffinch, Great Tit, House Sparrow, Tree Sparrow
36mm - 50mm Blackbird, Starling, Redstart, Song Thrush, Great Spotted Woodpecker
Over 60mm Jackdaw, Magpie, Pigeon, Seagull

The approximate figures relating to birds' beak reach are as follows:-

  Beak & Head Length Beak & /Head Width
Starling 75mm 25mm
Jackdaw 90mm 32mm
Magpie 90mm 35mm

The approximate mesh gaps which can be passed through by squirrels are as follows:-

26.5mm upwards Young Grey Squirrel (April-September)
35.5mm upwards Adult Grey Squirrel

These figures result from the measurement of a significant number of museum specimens of the relevant birds and squirrels.

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.