Bird feeders

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

My feeders used to attract a wide variety of birds. Now I mostly get a gang of sparrows gobbling up the feed before the others arrive. Oh well.

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Yeah, I'm over the sparrows, starlings and grackles. but they all need to eat.


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[Woodznutz]

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Yeah, I'm over the sparrows, starlings and grackles. but they all need to eat.


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True, and they also eat lots of insects, so we need to keep them healthy.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

True, and they also eat lots of insects, so we need to keep them healthy.

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The guy I rely on for bird info says that the mealworms fill the same nutritional needs as insects, so I feed them liberally. Just in the last couple of weeks, they have been really chowing down on the mealworms and suet.


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[Woodznutz]

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The guy I rely on for bird info says that the mealworms fill the same nutritional needs as insects, so I feed them liberally. Just in the last couple of weeks, they have been really chowing down on the mealworms and suet.


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I was referring to the general insect control that birds provide.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I was referring to the general insect control that birds provide.

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Thanks for clarifying. I'm fighting off some crap so I'm not all together.


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[hondo 50]

That was years ago... it take hours.
But once they were trained- They luved humans and would land on mens hats... everybody carried seeds... tiny little birds- chick- a -dees and these things that looked like them Called nut hatchers.. They were all small. It was FUN. I had trained 3 squirrels a few years back. that was fun too. I would sit on the deck and feed them. It amused me- and gave me fresh air.
once again my neighbor with 47 cats - put an end to that. none will come with wild cats all around.
now i luv Parrots. LOL

47?!

 

[playtime]

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[BothWings]

I have seen videos of people hand feeding birds. I'm jealous, but I don't have the patience for that sort of thing.

I've come close but no cigar yet. I don't feed birds in the summer, only from like November thru March. And often when I fill the feeder(s) it's before I go to work and don't have time to be patient. Maybe one of these days....

 

[BothWings]

 

[Woodznutz]

I've come close but no cigar yet. I don't feed birds in the summer, only from like November thru March. And often when I fill the feeder(s) it's before I go to work and don't have time to be patient. Maybe one of these days....

Let them eat bugs in the summer.

 

[BothWings]

Let them eat bugs in the summer.

Yep. That's what we do.

 

[playtime]

Let them eat bugs in the summer.

we have a vernal pool & although i feed them all year round, they keep a check on the mosquitos. i like seeing them bring their babies who eventually come on their own. i had a pair of bluebirds that stuck around & had 2 broods, & a pair of cardinals brought their babies.

 

[The Duke]

wait for it..........

That's not cool. He did that manually and it was way too much.
Do not like.
He baited the squirrel into that. That's like baiting deer. Yeah, it works.
Doesn't mean you know how to do things for real, though.
Might as well shoot it in the head and eat it if you're going to do that.

 

[playtime]

That's not cool. He did that manually and it was way too much.
Do not like.
He baited the squirrel into that. That's like baiting deer. Yeah, it works.
Doesn't mean you know how to do things for real, though.

i get your point, but flinging him was not shooting him.


i laugh because i've had them chew on my deck, ruin feeders & one managed to go down my chimney, into our woodstove.

 

[The Duke]

i get your point, but flinging him was not shooting him.


i laugh because i've had them chew on my deck, ruin feeders & one managed to go down my chimney, into our woodstove.

They're tree rats, but still. Now you know I will regulate some critters.
Just something feels wrong with that to me.

 

[Woodznutz]

i get your point, but flinging him was not shooting him.


i laugh because i've had them chew on my deck, ruin feeders & one managed to go down my chimney, into our woodstove.

I live in a old houses that had an old "Holland" furnace. A big fox squirrel made it into the firebox. Stink? OhmyGod! I had to take the furnace apart to get him out. Now I have chimney cap to keep them out even though I have a modern condensing furnace that doesn't need the chimney.

 

[playtime]

They're tree rats, but still. Now you know I will regulate some critters.
Just something feels wrong with that to me.

& why do you regulate some critters, marion?

 

[playtime]

I live in a old houses that had an old "Holland" furnace. A big fox squirrel made it into the firebox. Stink? OhmyGod! I had to take the furnace apart to get him out. Now I have chimney cap to keep them out even though I have a modern condensing furnace that doesn't need the chimney.

we had a cap on ours too, but it managed to get thru a rusted part
( figured it out when we replaced it after his invasion ) he was stuck in the pipe but not in the stove part - hubby started a fire to smoke him to the access door for creosote collection. we even shoved a live trap in the door b4 doing it, but it didn't work out. ended up having to shoot him in the chimney. no damage to the integrity - just to that m f'er.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I have seen videos of people hand feeding birds. I'm jealous, but I don't have the patience for that sort of thing.

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St Kevin was praying one day with his arms outstretched, palms up, and a blackbird landed and nested in one of his hands, and laid an egg, and he remained in that posture until the egg hatched and the hatchling flew away.

That's patience.

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