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but it's often folded down.
I have them often up here (and in warmer months when walking around outside, I hear them), though I was just thinking last week that I had not seen them in a bit. Well, they were back this weekend.
Now you have me thinking about making the trip down to Arlington Heights to pick up some stuff at Wild Birds Unlimited. I like some of the stuff I saw on the website and would make a good addition as I could go back to different types of feeders without the squirrels going after it (maybe a suet one and something for the woodpeckers). My feeder is pretty good at keeping squirrels out, not that they don't try. Chipmunks have figured out how to lift the cage enough so I have to switch from sunflower seeds to something else when they are back. At least with the large seed, the squirrels are happy to root around on the ground under the feeder, with the juncos.Chilidog wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 8:40 pm This one was at the suet feeder.
I get the cylinder from wild birds unlimited, but I screwed up
Normally I get the horn pepper version, but I got the regular, winter mix earlier and replaces it the other day with the same stuff.
There is a damned squirrel who figured out its not the hot pepper and hes been trying to get at it.
Fortunately I have a $10 off coupon.
Our suet feeders ARE the ones for woodpeckers. They decimate them as soon as we put them out.northland10 wrote: ↑Wed Feb 23, 2022 8:46 pmNow you have me thinking about making the trip down to Arlington Heights to pick up some stuff at Wild Birds Unlimited. I like some of the stuff I saw on the website and would make a good addition as I could go back to different types of feeders without the squirrels going after it (maybe a suet one and something for the woodpeckers). My feeder is pretty good at keeping squirrels out, not that they don't try. Chipmunks have figured out how to lift the cage enough so I have to switch from sunflower seeds to something else when they are back. At least with the large seed, the squirrels are happy to root around on the ground under the feeder, with the juncos.Chilidog wrote: ↑Tue Feb 22, 2022 8:40 pm This one was at the suet feeder.
I get the cylinder from wild birds unlimited, but I screwed up
Normally I get the horn pepper version, but I got the regular, winter mix earlier and replaces it the other day with the same stuff.
There is a damned squirrel who figured out its not the hot pepper and hes been trying to get at it.
Fortunately I have a $10 off coupon.
I noticed they make window feeders as well, but then I realized, if I put it on the window outside the window where I work during the day, that is right by my car. Might not be the best place for it. Still, little bird shit is quicker to clean off than big hawk shit. I know this from experience from the last year.
Turkey vultures are impressive birds.Phoenix520 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 20, 2022 3:32 am Took the pupper to the park today. We met up with mr520. Floyd was confused to see Daddy in a kayak in the lake but he got over it.
We were near the tangled woods at the bend in the lake, talking, when I saw something glide by about 6 feet above us and land on a branch almost directly above us. It casually turned to face us. It’s partner, more shy, landed a couple of branches away. Two turkey vultures looking down at us, chatting and hoping we’d go away soon. I finally noticed the half-submerged dead squirrel 3 feet away. We moved over and they moved in. They weren’t afraid of us at all. It’s kinda shivery, being stared at by vultures.
They must have been juveniles; they were small and seemed inexperienced. There wasn’t much left of the poor squirrel. It looked like they’d been working on the carcass for a few days.
It's the basic universal principle that if a bunch of truckers are parked at a restaurant it must have the best food. Now, determining the arc and mechanism of the critical mass point is something bill_g or Sam the centipede can explain.Northland10 -Is there an explanation for why it seems like many birds all come at one time to the feeder? I am not talking about a bunch of sparrows at once, which is normal, but all sorts of different types.
Funny you should mention truckers. Among the house sparrows, much like the freedumb convoys, there is a great deal of infighting this morning. They are also kind of stupid. In addition, they are rude to the other birds, but in their defense, at least the starlings deserved it.Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 10:08 am It's the basic universal principle that if a bunch of truckers are parked at a restaurant it must have the best food.
Starlings and house sparrows are invasives from Europe. If there were a way to eliminate them from the continent that wouldn't hurt anything else, I'd be for it. I have noticed high-quality habitats have lots of native songbirds and few if any invasive species.northland10 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 10:45 amFunny you should mention truckers. Among the house sparrows, much like the freedumb convoys, there is a great deal of infighting this morning. They are also kind of stupid. In addition, they are rude to the other birds, but in their defense, at least the starlings deserved it.Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Sat Apr 02, 2022 10:08 am It's the basic universal principle that if a bunch of truckers are parked at a restaurant it must have the best food.
Lots of tension here today.