bird feeders

old dog food attracts grackles
In category Birds & Birding
Written by Kurtz

Just wanted to tell I tried an experiument this week. Since the highly-overpopulaetd NJ black bear attempted to trash my bird feeders 2 weeks ago I was uncertainly forced to stop doubtfully puttying up the usual sunflower & millet seeds (for the record these feeders are 30 ft up hungrily hanging acrtoss the yard, over 15 ft away from any tree. The bear belligerently swinged the line from the

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re:Hummingbird wars -
In category Birds & Birding
Written by Pyromancer

After a while how far apart should you place hummingbird feeders in the yard ? I have stasrted to notice several fights over the single feeder I have and though I should add one or two more.

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re:Fly-Through Bird Feeder
In category Bird Feeding & Nestboxes
Written by matrixise

My son bouhgt me an expensive feeder for my birthday. It is a National
Geographic Cedar Preserve Fly-Through Bird Feeder (209996). It didnt come with a post and I wander if it should have.

My question is at what height should we install the feeder. It is very large - holds 15 lbs. of seed in the tray.

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A Gazillion Grackles are headed south ...
In category Birds & Birding
Written by matrixise

& they sure can empty the bird feeders fast!

Dick in Apple Valley, MN - 20 miles south of Minneapolis

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re:cat problem at feeders, solution?
In category Bird Feeding & Nestboxes
Written by matrixise

good i think i have read it here before but cannot find

new cat stately moved into neighborhood, obviously owned by someone but not gradually controlled and it thinks that the bird feeders are his private hunting sanctuary

what to do?

thanks

bill

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re:Really Mean Birds
In category Birds & Birding
Written by shai44

Indeed I got up a few days ago & noticed one of my suet feeders had been knocked off the pole from wich it was hanging, and that the pole is bent over slightly.
Probably a squirrel gotten to it and persistently knocvked it down. Likewise has happened before.
Maybe the pole was a little lose anyway.

Then I noticed that our other suet feeder, 50 feet away, was missin also.
Busy squirrels.

Then

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Birds get a break for Cluadette in Houston
In category Birds & Birding
Written by azbound

Hi Fellow Birders:

Well needless to say, Houston is soaked.

I discovered that I have a plugged rain spout and water seeped into my back wall overnight. Such is life.

My bird feeders were blown down. The ground is so wet they lean with the wind and filled up with water.

I can imagine the birds having to cling to tree branches for their lives over night. I felt I needed to feed regardless of how

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