Patent ID: 7798099

Claim:
A modular bird feeder system comprising: an elongated vertically standing mounting pole having an upper end extending to a removeable roof member and a lower end, the pole being secured at its lower end to ground foundation; a plurality of separate, independent, and adjacently aligned modular components forming a bird feeder unit, the pole extending completely through each of the components, said components comprising: bird feed housing means removeably positioned around the pole for the storage of bird feed; bird feed receptacle means removeably positioned around the pole for facilitating the receipt and filling of the housing means with bird feed, said bird feed receptacle means being located beneath the roof member and directly atop and mated with the bird feed housing means; an upper feed tray removeably mounted around and slideable along the pole, said feed tray comprising an integrally extending first means located substantially at the center of the feed tray for removeably connecting an adjacent modular component; a lower feed tray removeably mounted and slideable along the pole, said upper feed tray comprising an integrally extending second means located substantially at the center of the lower feed tray for removeably connecting two adjacent modular components; guard means removeably mounted and slideable along the pole for protecting the bird feed from unwanted animals, said guard means comprising an integrally extending third means located substantially at the center of the guard means for removeably connecting two adjacent modular components; and adjustment means removeably mounted and slideable along the pole for controlling the position of the bird feeder unit on the pole, said adjustment means at all times being located beneath the bird feed housing means and having fourth means for removeable connection with the center of an adjacent modular component; whereby the bird feeder unit, with all its modular components aligned and connected, is positioned by the adjustment means at the upper end of the pole for feeding birds and, upon sliding the adjustment means downward to a lowered position on the pole, the bird feeder unit is positioned to be filled with bird feed.