Bird feeding should be fun. To that end, the best feeders are those you come up with yourself as birds don't care as long as the food is there. I find that the right feed station in the right spot is an on going endeavor. I come up with new ideas all the time as to how to improve or make mine function a little better.

Here is an old blog post that has good info: http://yardcrap.typepad.com/yardcrap...d-feeding.html