2-Pack of Mr. Bird Flaming Hot Feast Large Wild Bird Seed Cylinder 4 lbs. 3 oz.

This is a convenient way to feed our window birds, but I do tire of looking at Mr. Squirrel’s patootie above my kitchen sink. Despite our best efforts in purchasing this rather costly product, he is undeterred so — depending on your squirrels — this may not be cost effective for you. We hoped this was an improvement over the Harvest brand hot cakes, but nope. I don’t think every squirrel can tolerate this, but several of ours do.

I am fairly new to bird feeding, mostly because of all work no enjoy anything else. Therefore, my learning about what and how to feed them has been a fairly steep learning curve. The first time, I used feed columns/logs/whatever you call them, and the squirrels had a good time, but not much by way of birds. That was my fault, but I finally clued in to the squirrels don't like spicy stuff, and the next time, that's what I got. That year, the birds still pretty much ignored my offerings, so I was a bit dubious in my seed log effectiveness. This year I tried this one, and I am a convert! All kinds of birds love this, from the Chicadee to the Woodpecker, and lots in between. This is what I will use from here on in - 5/5!

Arrived intact. The birds started eating it right away.

To feed my birds, and keep squirrels away

The product arrived yesterday and quite a bit off the top was loose. I was still able to get it hung on the feeder. This morning it wasn’t 90% gone like other stacked bird feed I’ve tried recently. Here’s hoping the birds like this!

We love these flaming hot cylinders and the birds do too. They are pricy but they last 1-2 weeks. The squirrels will not eat it. We’ve seen such a variety of birds too.

Loved the price!

UPDATE (April 30, 2023):Mr Bird's hot pepper cylinders are once again consistently in stock in the original recipe. The cylinders in my last two orders were carefully packed and shipped by the seller, and held together extremely well during transport, on the feeder, even in the rain. The birds love these seed cylinders, and squirrels and other critters do not. A very excellent product, highly recommended!ORIGINAL REVIEW (August 6, 2022):Mr Bird's hot pepper cylinders are usually excellent--quality ingredients, long lasting, good value, does a good job discouraging squirrels and other critters. But within the past year or so, the quality has dropped, maybe because ingredients used in the past are difficult to source right now. (?)The cylinders available now contain safflower seeds, which is fine because those are favorites of many birds. But the ingredient used to bind the cylinders isn't sufficient to withstand shipping, and they tend to melt and fall apart when even a little bit wet with rain. That never happened with the original ingredients. I ordered two cylinders recently and they arrived banged up with loose seeds and chunks that fell off when the wrapping was removed. When one of the cylinders was placed on the feeder this morning, it broke in half, and the top half fell apart and couldn't be stacked on the feeder.Mr Bird seems to be doing the best they can with limited resources at present, and I don't fault them for trying to keep their products available for their customers. But they really do need to rethink the binding agent for the hot pepper cylinders. And Amazon needs to do a better job packing fragile products for shipping. The two large cylinders in my last order were rolling around in a box larger than necessary, and had obviously been banging into each other during transport. How hard could it have been to put a little padding between them?