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need more birds

16 years ago

what kind of birds eat on the unside down feeder besides goldfinches

also want to get some bluejay to come i put peanuts in a shell and some sunflowers seed out but the squirrel and chip monk eat that i hear the blue jay but never see them

what kind of bird food can i buy for them?

I have a extra bird feeder maybe i can put it out with some food for the blue jays

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Comments (6)

birdist
16 years ago
My Scrub jays are gluttons for roasted in the shell peanuts (no salt). They're easy to tame when tempted with peanuts.
donald lucius
16 years ago
most any of the hanging birds will eat from upside down feeders. Nuthatches chickadees tits and woodpeckers and sapsuckers. grosbeaks try but have trouble hanging for long. most of the above birds eat suet or sorghum or molasses blocks with nuts or sunflower seeds raisens or
dried berys ect.
once the jays come they will eat almost anything especially peanuts and food scraps and mixed seeds and dry bread.
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anna_lisa
Original Author
16 years ago
I have a 14 inch plate with peanuts in the shell sunflower and dry bread and some corn seed in it.
I have 4 squirrels and 2 chipmonks the dish is empty in a couple of hours.they come full there mouth up and take off then come back 5 mins later
so now the only thing i can think about is a bird feeder so the chipmonks and squirrels cannot get to
Anna
donald lucius
16 years ago
its easy to make a pvc pipe pole and either bury the end of the pipe in the ground or a small bucket of cement so it stands up well. make sure its away from trees or fences or other things a squirrels can climb and jump across to the feeders. Squirrels and chipmonks can't climb the plastic pipe you can put 3 way T fitting on the top so a short pipe sticks out two ways. you can hang a feeder from each side either by a shepards hook or a hole in each side to use a cable or chain to hang the feeders, Put a platform on one side for nuts or fruit or bigger seeds and a hopper feeder or tube feeder on the other side for sunflower or saffflower or choppped nuts or raisens.
ponderpaul
16 years ago
Magpies - they couldn't hang long enough to eat much but they would try to knock chunks out and then eat it on the ground!
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16 years ago
magpies are the hardest scavenger to defend against as they will eat anything and will raid almost any feeder or platform. the only feeder i have found to slow them down is a cage feeder made of wooden dowels on end spaced around the edges of a platform with a hopper or tube feeder in the middle. the little birds fly thru the dowel spaceing and land inside. and if the platform is big enough the magpies can't reach inside far enough to get much.

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