We have not had as many birds this year as last and while we do have one pair of Red-bellied Woodpeckers and one Titmouse and a White-breasted Nuthatch we only have one occasional Mourning Dove and various House Sparrows now and then. I try to keep the feeder filled and the snow cleaned off but sometimes it gets ahead of me. I also use two feeders. One newer allows about the same number of birds but they are not able to scatter the seeds like they sometimes do when using this feeder. This one will also take whole raw peanuts but I seldom put them in as it takes some period of time to get one out and that exposes the birds to a lot more risk from hawks. This one had to be shook off and then get the seed unstuck before it was used by the birds.
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Snowed in Birdfeeder
We have not had as many birds this year as last and while we do have one pair of Red-bellied Woodpeckers and one Titmouse and a White-breasted Nuthatch we only have one occasional Mourning Dove and various House Sparrows now and then. I try to keep the feeder filled and the snow cleaned off but sometimes it gets ahead of me. I also use two feeders. One newer allows about the same number of birds but they are not able to scatter the seeds like they sometimes do when using this feeder. This one will also take whole raw peanuts but I seldom put them in as it takes some period of time to get one out and that exposes the birds to a lot more risk from hawks. This one had to be shook off and then get the seed unstuck before it was used by the birds.
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Sounds like it gets the job done well. :-)
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