Patent ID: 7263950

Claim:
A bird feeder comprising a housing and a plurality of modular hopper elements forming a hopper assembly, said housing including a base underlying and supporting said hopper elements and a roof overlying said hopper elements, said base and said roof being interconnected with a central post, each hopper element including a floor and upstanding walls together defining an internal cavity for receiving a quantity of bird food, said walls including at least one substantially flat impermeable side wall and at least one curved front wall including at least one feed aperture through which birds may access bird food within said cavity, each of said hopper elements being tapered from an enlarged upper portion to a smaller lower portion to form a frustoconical hopper assembly with each of said hopper elements defining a segment of said frustoconical hopper assembly, a substantially flat impermeable side wall of each hopper element being juxtaposed to a substantially flat impermeable side wall of at least one other hopper element in an assembled relationship of said hopper elements, and said curved front walls of said hopper elements when side by side and taken together in said hopper assembly forming a substantially circular horizontal cross-section, said base including a horizontally extending portion and an upstanding peripheral wall that define a seed catcher for catching bird feed falling from the feed apertures and each hopper element being removably coupled to said central post on an individual basis so as to be cleaned, refilled and/or replaced without removing any other hopper element from said housing and without disassembly of any other component of the bird feeder.