Ideas on how to include a bird house and bird feeder together
nanaclaire
10 years ago
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Comments (5)Love it,hope you get a cup and saucer up there with it,that would look so good :) Did you make the bench from a chair or a headboard? I really like it a lot! Everything looks great :)...See Morenew birds at the feeders
Comments (27)Any feeder in a storm, eh? I have had feeders out for many a year, and I have seen a lot of things come and go, some of which aren't classified as seed eaters (Carolina wrens VERY often, mockers from time to time, etc) but I would be thrilled to have warblers stop by my feeders. It would make it SO much easier to see and enjoy them than the way I have to do it now...craning my head back so far it feels like my neck will break just to catch a passing glimpse of them WAY up in the trees. Of course, sometimes I will get lucky and they will show up at my birdbaths for a few weeks. That's always fun. My favorite was a pair of parulas who both would jump into the deepest part of the bath, and pop straight up out again. They looked to be completely submerging themselves in a fast dunk and then rocketing straight up again! Normally the little guys don't care for the deep water and will stand on the edge or on a rock and just lean forward to dip their chests in, but this pair were like Olympic divers! (I gave them 10's consistently.) The wonderful thing about nature is no matter how much you learn, there are still so many surprises out there. *going to get up tomorrow HOPING for a black throated blue or an ORIOLE...better yet!...at my feeder!!* Marcia...See MoreBirds at Feeders
Comments (14)Because the others are females and they are his harem? Maybe all the other males are out buying beer for Super Bowl Sunday? Maybe all the other males are sleeping off their pre-Super Bowl party celebrations last night? I don't know why you only have one male, but here at our house the females always outnumber the males. Often the males eat early in the day and the females eat later. Female redwings don't really look that much like the males, so it is easy to tell that you have more females than males. Lots of people don't even realize the females are female redwings and think they are something else. Yesterday, in a rather odd form of behavior, the males were going mad over the cattail seedheads, and the females weren't. I have no idea what that means. I see a pretty similar gender segregation with the cardinals too. The males come in big groups of 10 or 12 or 15 to eat. Later on, the females come in smaller groups of 2, 3, 4 or 5. I wonder why. Finally, how about the deer and the way they feed. Our does and fawns, even the young males, come together in a group. They eat first. The minute our really big buck shows up, all the others scatter. It isn't that the buck is aggressive and pushes them away from the food. In fact, he stands in the neighbor's pasture about 20' from where the deer are feeding and waits patiently. He never comes to the food and nudges them away from it. However, from the moment he shows up, all the others are antsy and nervous and hungrily snatch a few more bites before quickly leaving together as a group. Respect for the buck's superior size and strength? Fear? Who knows what it is, but it is interesting to watch. Dawn...See MoreHome made bird feeder
Comments (5)Some other easy ideas kids like -- Tie peanuts on a tring. You need at least two in a pod so you have a narrow spot for the string and you can tie several on a length of string. You can hang them anywhere, but it's especially fun if you have a "squirrel proof" feeder. Blue jays and woodpeckers love them and the squirrels will try to figure out how to get to them. Drill large holes (using a small circle saw bit) into a piece of dropped tree branch and fill with a mixture of peanut butter, cornmeal and birdseed. ....See Morenanaclaire
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