TheBip
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 1:46 pm Post subject: I love birdies :D |
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Ive updated my bird list ^_^
So our backyard bird visitors list is:
American Robin
Cardinal
Mourning Dove
Grackle
Brown-Headed Cowbird
Starling
White-Breasted Nuthatch
Dark-Eyed Junco
Downy Woodpecker
House Finch
Chipping Sparrow
House Sparrow
Swainsons Thrush
Goldfinch
Yellow-Billed Cuckoo
Blue Jay
As I ID more birds, Ill add em here ^_^
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 3:40 pm Post subject: |
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WOW!! That's a wonderful list of birds visiting your yard, Bip. 
| TheBip wrote: | | . . . grackle (they eat my suet! grr) |
Say, I just saw an interesting tip about how to hang suet feeders
so that only the "desirable" birdies will be able to enjoy it.
 If this is the type of feeder you use
and you buy the prepared suet that comes in a sort of a square plastic tub,
don't remove the block of suet from that tub before sliding it into the feeder cage.
Then hang the entire assembly "face down" instead of vertically
(in other words, with the open part of the suet facing the ground).
You may have to add a couple of pieces of chain or wire to hang it that way,
but only woodpeckers and smaller birds like finches and chickadees
will be able to feed comfortably hanging upside down like that. 
Or at least, that's what the man on TV said, it sounded reasonable to me.
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eileen
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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I have those feeders in my garden Zuzu but the starlings and rooks still manage to get at the suet or pull the feeders off the hooks and burst them open no matter which way I hang them up. GRRRR
You certainly have a lovely assortment of birds visiting your garden Jen. I look forward to seeing the new additions as you add them to your list.
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glendann
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Good group coming to visit.Bird here in Heathers yard are so pretty but are to fast for me to capture on film.
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TheBip
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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My suet feeder is similar, though it hangs from a chain. I think Ill try hanging it upside down like that.
I took it down a few days ago, hoping that they would give up, though I still see em.
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Silly Old Bat
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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Good luck, Bip.
 Let's hope that your Grackles aren't as clever as Eileen's Rooks and Starlings.
It seems like every year the Blackbirds devour our suet,
so that's why the tip caught my attention,
I plan to try it this year, too. 
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CritterPainter
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| Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 5:55 pm Post subject: |
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I've always hung my suet the way Zuzu mentioned, it's worked well for years, but now my resident grey squirrel has discovered that by hanging from one toe & his tail, he can get into it! Looks so funny I don't really mind.
Bip, sounds like you have alot of the same visitors I do, except for the cardinals  Hmm, maybe I should attach notes to the little birdie legs and see if the wind up at your place, lol! (hmm, my fever must be returning, I suddenly have a vision of two sparrows carrying a coconut between them, Monty Python always crops up in fever dreams!)
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