Walt how is the weather up your way? If we do not put the feed out further in my estimation it is not doing what we desire. I have come to the place that I feel most feeders will have bad results sometimes even though they may be new. We just need to find the best feeder possible and then try to make changes in the feeder to improve the results we desire. Yes it would be nice to purchase perfect feeders but this seems to be difficult. The size of the feed always throws a curve often that we need to correct. I will say that I do not like to work on feeders as I seldom get them back into the state that I desire. We seem to have many threads on feeders but we have not found one that is perfect as far as I know. I would suggest a person read these threads to be knowledgeable to make the better decision.