Review on 🦜 Premium Seed Catcher Tray for 1-Inch Straight Birding Pole - No Pole or Feeder Included by Kat Hernandez

Reviewers who enjoyed this should not have larger birds, strong wind storms and other factors stressing the connections between the four parts of this assembly. Perhaps a PhD in industrial engineering is a handicap because design and construction flaws are so obvious. I'd be embarrassed if I designed this and the student who designed it flunked it. The two halves of the tray should be one piece, or at least snap or lock together tightly. They don't even match the seam between the halves, which should at least be straight and mesh, but curve away from each other, creating gaps on either side. This simultaneously weakens the shell and allows the birds to fall through or eject the seeds. The drainage holes are also large enough to allow some bird seed to pass through. Big birds like pigeons, pigeons and grackles shed a lot of seeds and weigh down bad design. FALLED SEEDS, WHICH SHOULD BE PREVENTED BY THIS, are a treat for the rats, mice, squirrels and chipmunks that graze under my partitions, with some seeds surviving to germinate from the ground beneath them, necessitating constant weeding and the placement of a fine net over the holes required. . The two top and bottom tips that supposedly pinch the stem to unify and strengthen the build are a joke. They are made of plastic and aren't strong enough, with notches that won't hold the shell halves together at all under normal stress and deflection from the elements, critters, and the bulk of the Squirrel Buster Plus pet feeder. Again, these parts must be part of a solid, reinforced single structure, or at least must be reliably and accurately mated, interlocked, and unified with other parts. Many yards of tape and four screws with two washers partially solved these problems, but the tape needs to be reapplied regularly. It took $10 worth of epoxy to secure PART of the assembly. This "tray" is only marginally better than nothing and requires the additional expense of a mounting post and feeder rod adapter, which is also a pathetic and unreliable design.