feeder update
experimenting more than reporting I guess - Mourning Doves and starlings have been taking such vigorous baths in the waterer it is over 1/2 emptied every day - still no birds frozen to the feeders - sure hope that doesn’t happen - how does one get that plastic stuff put on the feeders to prevent stick-on birds??
no sign of Siskins for quite some time - lots of Goldfinches, Chickadees, woodpeckers, and, the starlings have come from the neighbors to enjoy the numerous carcasses I have hanging - if that’s all they bother with, I can live with it - they are often amusing - no sights or sounds of the Barred Owls lately - hope they are still around - did see a dead shrew on top of the snow today out in the field - odd - and the remains of a rabbit and a mourning dove - flushed quite a few grouse out of the snow in the woods -and that would be it for now! Gayle
March 12th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
The last several days our feeders have been loaded with finches and also a mob of morning doves (about 25). I’m guessing we have a couple hundred pine siskens, redpolls and goldfinches with a few purple finches thrown in for color.
We are going through feed faster than I think we ever have before. In past years we’ve had a dove or two occasionally here at our woodland feeder. But this year we’ve had as many as 30 at a time!
The deer carcasses/”suet feeder” that we had hanging in the yard is pretty much just bones left. So the northern shrike that we had as a regular visitor feeding on it has moved on.
Other than the usual chickadees, white and red-breasted nuthatches, and bluejays, that’s about it for our feeder news. Greg