Re: Avian learning curve
gardenchat@hort.net
  • Subject: Re: Avian learning curve
  • From: J* S* <i*@q.com>
  • Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2013 18:09:10 -0800
I love mockingbirds.

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On Jan 26, 2013, at 5:35 PM, Zemuly wrote:

> I love birds. I have a dish of birdseed on my front porch. The cats
> enjoy watching, and so do I. There is a squirrel that puts its nose on
> the window until the mockingbird bops it on the head.
> 
> 
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> On Jan 26, 2013, at 3:14 PM, Aplfgcnys@aol.com wrote:
> 
>> Last summer we got an upside-down suet feeder for our woodpeckers.
>> Until that time we just hung suet in a wire mesh cage, and all the birds
>> loved it - they were going through a suet cake every two days which 
>> was getting pretty pricey.  Of course we also feed sunflower hulls, so
>> there was something for everyone.  
>> Well, it was most interesting to watch the birds adapt.  At first only
>> the female downy woodpeckers came to the new feeder.  The males
>> would sit on the top of it and watch.  Then after a few days the male
>> birds alaso got the hang of it.  The larger woodies were slower - the
>> red-bellies and the hairies - but they too finally learned how to use the
>> feeder.  They always liked to eat hanging upside down, but just had to
>> be shown, I guess.  
>> For  quite a while no other birds used the feeder. Then a pesky squirrel
>> made a pass at it.  He managed to gnaw his way into one end and pull
>> the grid open enough to get at the suet, but I guess he decided it was
>> too much work, for he hasn't continued.  
>> Perhaps the extreme cold has made the birds need the suet more, or
>> perhaps they just finally caught on by watching the woodies, but this
>> week we have seen nuthatches, chickadees and Carolina wrens hanging 
>> upside down to eat from the suet feeder.  Interesting.
>> Auralie
>> 
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