tube feeder

Newbie, got lots of questions! (longish)
In category 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

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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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An odd three days
In category 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

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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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What birdseed is best?
In category Bird Feeding & Nestboxes
Written by rseymour

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Filling your tube feeder with mixed seed. - If you do this, all the seed will run out onto the ground, making the sparrows, pigeons, and blackbirds very happy. Solution: Use sunflower seed instead.

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Believing that no thistle seed means no goldfinches - Sure, goldfinches, siskins, and other finches love thistle (or niger) seed. But it's an expensive seed to offer exclusively. Sol

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