suet feeders

re:Seattle area bird newbie is hooked! Long
In category 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

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re:How to get some more Woodpeckers?
In category Birds & Birding
Written by 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

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re:Indecisive female woodpecker
In category Birds & Birding
Written by shai44

Despite that yesterday, a female pileated woodpecker made a visit to my parents neighbors tree. She just stared at suet feeder hung above my parents patio for several minutes trying to make her move but,she was just too shy to do it &, she flew away back into the woods. She's been here before with her "fuzzy crested" young son last summer doing the same thing.Other Pileateds don't seem to

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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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