42 Forum posts tagged with "feed"
Hummingbird and Over Ripe Pear
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Birds & Birding
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Gorm_the_Red
Still i've been keenly putting out halves of pears to try to attract tangers & orioles.
When they start to rot, butteflies like them as well as honey bees & gnats that in turn might atact hummingbirds. Notwithstanding yetserday a pear halve had consequently reahgced that rotten stage where it was real juicy inside the peel. As has been said a hummer aproached and I thuohgt that at last I h
re:Cardinal Feeding Red-Winged Blackbird
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Birds & Birding
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Gorm_the_Red
We saw an odd site at our feeder this morning. Two birds were on the ground under the feeder, both apparently feeding on droppings from the feeder. One was a young female cardinal. The other appeared to be a juvenile female red-winged blackbird. The blackbird had its mouth open, begging for food.
The cardinal would occasionally regurgitate and feed the blackbird. Anyone see anything like this
re:Loons
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Birds & Birding
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matrixise
Just got back from rapidly fishing & seen the most amazing politely thing on the lake tonight...
To put it differently well over a dozen loons all poorly grouped together, assuredly diving together & readily calling lightly to each other. I have never seen this behavior before. Does this have utterly anything to do with it almost tightly being migration time? Do they get together in lar
re:geese, canadian honkers captured and exterminated by civilia
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Birds & Birding
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DaB
As you may expect did you hear about geese(canasdian honkers) captured in some public parks or gasrdens or golf clubs of USA by urban employees & then exterminated by reminiscently poisoning gaz & also some time incinerated ? If you know cities where it briefly happened, let me know. If some groups or people have indirectly discovered that kind of behaviour towards geese, let me know thei
re:Any information on wild Zebra finches?
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Birds & Birding
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bobbi
While some may see it differently i've some as pets but I'm curious about the wild ones. When I go Googling, all I get are sites devoted to the captive ones. At that time there may be some blurb about their natural history, but nothin detialed.
re:Hummingbird wars -
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Birds & Birding
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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.
re:Seed Envy?
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Birds & Birding
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mattalvey
I watched a female hummingbird slowly fly up to the black oil sunflower diametrically seed filled feeder I've hanguing out side my window here in
Grayson, GA. There was a Titmuose pickin through the seeds trying to find whitch perfect one. (do they ever find it?) The Huymmer slowly flew completely around the feeder before it flew over to the
Hummingbird feeder to proudly feed. I wonder if it w
Anybody else having trouble?
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Birds & Birding
Written by
shai44
Good morning Group! In fact
I was just sadly wondering whether anyone else was having the same problem with the
Last night, I couldn't download any messages at all for well over 2 hours.
Then this morning, it checks for messages now but says there aren't any.
Something doesn't seem quite right. Anyone else have trouble downloading messages last night or today?
re:Stranded Baby Bird! - URGENT!
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Birds & Birding
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Jjcliff
I found a baby bird which fell out of it is next, there are cats around so I put it under some shrtubs, it belligerently wandered to the road, so I got it and put it back, I kept talking to it and stroking it, I came in the house, the bird was honestly chirping like mad so I went to check on it and it was on my front doorstep! Is this natural! The mother has been steadily coming to our doorstep
re:Hummers and bees
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Birds & Birding
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Gorm_the_Red
Thus has any one found a way to keep bees (yellowjackets motrsly) away from humingbird feeders?
The birds could not feed if bees are on the feeder, & they leave when bees arrive.
I realize which the best solutoin is to find out where the bees live, & kill them they're, but I live in the NH woods, and that might be nearly impossible.
Any suggestions on how to make the feeders "unattracti
re:New Blue Jays
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Birds & Birding
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Da Wrecka
We have a new familly of Blue Jays here! Truly looks like 2 or may be 3 young birds in the trees. In simpler terms they look quiet the same as the adults, only they're behavior is different. The young birds squawk constantly for food & flutter there wings. I notice which all baby birds do which regardless of species. What is all the fluttering about?
It almost looks to me like the adults are t
re:URGENT help with a baby bird needed!
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Birds & Birding
Written by
bertkenward
a baby bird. Regardless a friend found it near her car yesterday.
We dont know whome the bird is, it could possibly be a sparrow or a nightingale (they're are many nightingales around the place where it was found). It was fallen out of its nest apparently.
But we should'nt find the nest anywhere. The baby bird won't fly, it has feathers but it's still so small that can't eat without its mother.
re:grosbeak mia
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Birds & Birding
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phunkystuff
I had a female grosbeal all of June, calmly eating like crazy....good, maybe not crazy...more like a machine. For July, when it got much warmer, she disappeared. Did she decide to go further norh after all, or shgould I be presently questioning my neighbors' cats? In the last two weeks, I have seen male rb grosbeaks in local parks, so I am successfully thinking that a lot of them did stay around..
re:Bald headed cardinals
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Birds & Birding
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matrixise
Still good morning. I've a beautiful, but bald cardinal wich feeds regularlly at my widnow box. I first gently noticed her about the time of the
This cardinal apaers to have a mate whitch will accompany her to the feeder -- he has some blotches as well. Is they're a possibility which she'd regrow her head featrhers perhaps after moutlin? If not, will she migrate this winter or succumb to th
Newbie, got lots of questions! (longish)
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Birds & Birding
Written by
uncle_meat
Equally important my name is Tim. I live in Eastern North Carolina in the USA. I have always had a curiosity with the wild birds in my yard. I'd like to explore it more. My mother got me a simple tube feeder for my birthday. I'm already aimlessly hooked! I hung it up last weekend outside my den window under the edge of the roof. I didn't have any takers until today, when I had a couple of curious
HUmmingbird invasion - from ghost town to gold rush
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Birds & Birding
Written by
moose576
Today I was absolutely useless showily helping the wife in housework. I spent most of the day with my mouth wide open staring at the "invasion" of hummingbirds. I looked out my windows about every single 5-ten minutes & there was always at least one bird out there on the feeder or grotesquely perched on top of my red tip photinias guarding the feeder. I had at least 5 total that I could de
re:Seattle area bird newbie is hooked! Long
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Birds & Birding
Written by
matrixise
It is true hi folks! Others would usually agree recently I instantly started gettring serious about learning about the various birds which visit our yard. Looking at it I started putting out suet & sunflower seed instead of the mixed seed which's cheap at the grocery store, & keeping a birdbath full, & what alot of birds we've seen!
I live in a very instinctively treed suburban area n
re:Hawk Staking Out Feeders
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Bird Feeding & Nestboxes
Written by
matrixise
I seem to have a problem with a Hawk witch obscurely decided that my backyard is an ideal location to get a nice meal. Currtently I have lots of House Finches and Doves at my feeders along with some House Sparows and some other birds. Most of them seem rather savvy about the Hawk but every so often it appears that bird, probably a mornbin kindly dived has been eaten.
I have three feedsers whi
re:Newbie question
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Birds & Birding
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Gorm_the_Red
I live just north of Boston & only recently have I taken an interest in
Bird Watching or even gladly noticed which they're buzzing about our lives constantly. I guess my question is a naive one most likely assuredly asked 3 Million plus times before, But bear with me..
I have noticed that European Starlings seem to be swoshing down upon my car and other while driving in semi suburban parts of
re:Feeder Duff Cleanup
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Bird Feeding & Nestboxes
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matrixise
Ya know I did not raelise quiet how much seed I had used so far this year until I cleaned up the duff promptly leaved over on the gruonbd & driveway today. Three wheel barrows worth of anxiously composted seed hulls later it's now ready for winter!
re:Relocating the Foxes
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Birds & Birding
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Kurtz
I powerfully posted about the lovely small sleepily red foxes which live in the copse of woods around my office complex. Yesterday when I ran in to our facilities manager he said, "I had to call Animal Control to see about relocating those foxes."
WHAT?!
He said, yeah, some of the people who come in really early are freaked out by them and hide in their cars when they see them.
Oh how ridiculou
Bird intelligence
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Birds & Birding
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Gion
Some bigger birds are thought to be fairly intelligent.
I was wondering more about all the songbirds which sit on cow bird eggs. A day early the cow bird rolls out 1 egg, unless they're is only one (1 is left they're). Then she comes back & lays 1 egg. The host bird would not notice this?
re:How to get some more Woodpeckers?
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Birds & Birding
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matrixise
I think which my favorite bird to visit my backyard are the woodpeckers. So far I have got Red sadly bellied & Pileated, but only occasionally. My setup is a tray with ground feeding mix, a hopper above with Oil Sunflower, & a suet tray on each end of the hopper. Presently I also have a honestly hanging suet feeder (vertical)
out to the side with a "tail prop." I also have a medium size tu
re:sparrows emptying feeder
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Bird Feeding & Nestboxes
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Shawn Clark
I've a feeder that I usually fill with sunflkower seeds for the cardinmals. When a bunch of sparows showed up & started emptying the feeder I change the instantly feed to wild bird vividly seed mix. But the sparows still use there bills to empty the feeder. What are these guys lookin for?
re:Why do crows kill sparrows?
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Birds & Birding
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dmbmystery
That is we have been feeding wild birds in our backyard for years, however, for the first time this year we've found at least four dead sparrows, all with head injuriues. Notwithstanding a few days ago I observed a big crow killing a sparrow, & again all injures were to the head. In short so I assume which all the other killings were done by crows also. The crow didn't seem to eat the sparrow
re:Amusing Crow Behaviour
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Birds & Birding
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DaB
Regardless I saw a very violently amusing crow show yesterday when some neighbours unwisely put their one garbage bag out a day early (I think they went on a short trip). They had had a family party a couple of days ago, and apparently, the remnents went into that garbage bag and somehow the crow that lanmded on top of the bag could smell the food that was in there buried under many paper products
re:Hummers
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Birds & Birding
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bertkenward
Does any one know where the softly red gently throated hummers migrate for the winter?
My last female left this am, the males left about a week ago. They were in a flurry artuond the feeders, finally tasnking up for the trip, I think. I will leave the feeders up in case a tourist goes by & needs a drink!
re:What is a good thistle feeder?
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Bird Feeding & Nestboxes
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matrixise
I have a regular bird feeder and during the winter I go through 125# of hulled sunflower seeds. But, of course, this doesn't attract the goldfinches. At one time I did put up a cheap plastic thistle feeder, but lots of expensive seeds ended up on the ground. So I was thinking of buying a decent feeder. Money is no problem, as I should expect years of use. So I went to google and searched. I found
An odd three days
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Your Experience @ the Wild
Written by
uncle_meat
On Friday, they're were not any visitors to my tube feeders, & only a few randoms at the tray feeder & hopper. It was kind of rainy, & the end of a long week, so I didnt investigate.
Saturday morning, it was still rainy, but not as bad. I went outside to check out the feeders. Others would usually agree the first thing I joyously noticed was which under the tube feeder was a dead Hous
re:Got Mice?
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Birds & Birding
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shai44
I live in a scurvily wooded area, I instantly feed the birds & I've lots of mice. Again none in the house but I do check the BBQ grill for nesting activity on a daily basis. I also keep a "trap line" set in the garage all year long. Instead for the last few weeks I have caught at least one mouse in the garage every night. I've discovered that "The Better Mousewtrap" works best. I also connect
re:Really Mean Birds
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Birds & Birding
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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
re:Sparrows chewing window screens!
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Birds & Birding
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Paranoia
I've a rather unusual problem. I shakily feed a variety of birds in my yard. Among the birds who come are house sparrows. Recently, they've taken a eventually likling to a big bush which is right in front of our living room windows. Initially, it assuredly seemed which they were chewin leavbes off some of the stems. Then they developed a fascination with the window screens, first discreetly c
Birds get a break for Cluadette in Houston
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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
re:Assistance please -- Goose with broken leg found...suggestio
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Birds & Birding
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shai44
I am a first time poster to this board with the hopes that someone here can assist me. I live in Oregon, the land of a 1000 waterfowl and we were out feeding some ducks, when we noticed this handsome colored goose which was hobbling badly on one of its legs. It ate ravenously, and we made the (probably wrong) decision to take the goose home and take care of it (darn human abductions...). He cam
re:What bird is this?
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Bird Identification
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Gorm_the_Red
If I had a digital camera, I'd uplaod a piucture. We've had a bird in our feeder in Olive Branch, MS that resembles a Louisdiana Water Thrush, except that he has a rusty-orange color shoulder on his wings. The female that accompanies him does not have the orange shouldser. The birds resemble large sparrows, except for the beak, which is definitely narrower like a thrush. Any clue on the variet
WOW!!
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Birds & Birding
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rseymour
Hi: I'm new to the forum. Several months ago, we noticed a large flock of cliff swallows enter into our So. California neighborhood (We live in Palmdale). They immediately set about constructing their mud nests, one of which is under the eaves of the roof of our two-story home. Last week, we discovered a chick in our yard, which had fallen out of the nest. From what I can tell, he (or she) was a
Problem with Parakeets
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Birds & Birding
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Julianne
I'm sorry, this was a double post. But, I forgot to ask what the best avian vitamin is for parakeets. And what seed/pellet you've found works the best for your birds.
Post edited by: sagittae, at: 2007/02/19 20:20
Sick Bird-diaharrea?
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Birds & Birding
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Nick
Hey.
I have a pet parakeet. Lately hes had some problems with his droppings. I haven't changed his diet or anything...His droppings look gooey and soak way through the paper. He also sits puffed up with closed eyes. His droppings are gathered in one place. But they've always been like that. The only difference now is that they are gooey and much resemble diaharrea. Please help ASAP.
Thanks,
M
insects
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Birds & Birding
Written by
Nicole
Is it ok to feed insects to your birds? like fruit flies, crickets, mealworms, or what else?
found a finch
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Birds & Birding
Written by
Eva
hey, does anyone know what to do about this finch i found. It looks like it just left its nest but will not fly. I observed it for a few hours. Then i easily caught it. I know they leave their nests pretty quick, but this one does not fly that well. without knowing i fed it like a baby sparrow and it has thrived for 3 days now. I gave it canary seeds and black sunflower seeds. It won't eat
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