Single Bird Feeder Station (Crook) – Heavy Duty 12mm Solid Metal Pole with Double Prong Ground Fixing, Black Finish – Hanging Feeder, Wind Chimes, Lanterns – 210cm UK Made

This must be the Rolls Royce of bird feeding poles. British made, this one's actually been thought about and is both robust and good-looking. It's made from solid steel (not tube) but is quite slim-line with an unfussy design - it looks elegant and is not over-heavy. It comes in two parts which slot together easily. One word of caution, the two parts are secured together with a grub screw: the Allen key for this is supplied and is obvious, but the grub screw is hidden away inside the open end of the upper part, there no warning of that and ours fell out into the grass before we realised - luckily a magnet found it. The makers could perhaps put Allen key and grub screw together in a small bag. The black paint looks thick and the whole thing looks really good, nothing shoddy about it. We put ours up without any problem: the double prongs went into our lawn easily. You can push the prongs in by pushing with your foot on the horizontal bar, as with a fork, which makes it easy to get them full depth in. It seems very stable. There's a small solid metal ring on one of the prongs which puzzled us - turns out it's there to hang the whole thing on during painting. We thought it might make it difficult to push into the ground but that was not the case, it was easy. It does not claim to be squirrel proof and it isn't. Squirrels climb the pole with ease. Because it comes into two pieces it will probably be possible to fit a 'slide-on' squirrel baffle (the more common type) - but we haven't actually tried that yet so can't be sure. Maybe a wrap-round metal baffle is the thing - squirrels can and do gnaw through plastic - but on a first search these seem (not surprisingly) to be more expensive. Finally the price is good for a quality product which should last and last. And just in case you're wondering, no I have no connection with Gap Garden and haven't been asked, persuaded or paid to write this review! - I just felt they and this product deserved a good one because for they've really thought through the design and used quality materials and construction.

Excellent quality and very stable. Buy this in preference to a cheap tubular construction pole, which will rust away. This pole has supported a heavy seed feeder in some severe winter storms. Very pleased with it.

Beautiful sturdy bird feeder. Definitely worth paying that bit more.

Incredibly sturdy and easy to assemble. The only negative is that it isn't very tall once the stabiliser has been pushed all the way in, so place it in a place where the birds can easily spot approaching cats!

Fantastic feeder, made proper

I had looked at loads of feeding stations and this one popped up. From the photos and descriptions it looked far better than its competitors. It is a bit more expensive and on receiving the item proved very much worth more money. Easy to put together and very sturdy feel. Holding my large feeder so can handle weight very well

I bought this as a gift for my relative and they were thrilled. Excellent quality and looks great in their garden.

This bird-feeding station arrived on time, well-packaged, and took only moments to put together. It's well made out of solid square-section metal and looks—and feels!—very robust. Once it was in place and the feeders full, it was clearly popular with the local bird life. I strongly recommend this item—it's by far the best we have had. It would have been easier to erect if the soil in my garden hadn't been so hard and dry, and I had to dig a hole to do the job. I had bought two additional stabilisers that were shown on the Amazon page as 'often bought' with this station, but the advertisement didn't say that these had far too big a socket to provide secure stabilisation—I used them, but had to pack the sockets out with old metal tent pegs and 6-in nails. I'm not sure whether there are any alternative stabilisers, but this pair weren't a great solution.