Re:[cayugabirds-l] Carolina wren 2.17.2014
A year or two ago, I put chicken wire around our double-caged suet-feeder (suet cage inside a bigger feeder cage) to stop the red-squirrel from sitting inside all day and excluding birds from the suet. This frustrated the squirrel all right, and small birds could get in and out. But I noticed that sometimes when trying to get out fast, they could scrape perhaps damage their flight feathers. So I took the chicken wire off. Especially since a Carolina Wren pair loves to come to the suet. (This Feb we have had only one of the pair coming.) Two-inch mesh chicken wire is too large to keep the squirrel out. An interesting observation: the Red-br Nuthatch pair were the first to figure out how to get in through the ch-wire, then chickadees and carolina wrens. But the goldfinches just could never figure out that they had to perch and get in before they could get to the suet. They kept going round and round, never got in. Nari Mistry, Ellis Hollow Rd. -- ___ *Nari B. Mistry*, Ithaca, NY To see my paintings, visit http://www.ArtbyNari.com -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
Re: [cayugabirds-l] Carolina wren 2.17.2014
Hello Nari, Nice post. And here's perhaps an explanation for your Goldfinches, maybe they were just wondering what all the excitement was about. : ) From All About Birds Goldfinches are among the strictest vegetarians in the bird world, selecting an entirely vegetable diet and only inadvertently swallowing an occasional insect. Linda Orkin Muriel Street Ithaca On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Nari Mistry n...@cornell.edu wrote: A year or two ago, I put chicken wire around our double-caged suet-feeder (suet cage inside a bigger feeder cage) to stop the red-squirrel from sitting inside all day and excluding birds from the suet. This frustrated the squirrel all right, and small birds could get in and out. But I noticed that sometimes when trying to get out fast, they could scrape perhaps damage their flight feathers. So I took the chicken wire off. Especially since a Carolina Wren pair loves to come to the suet. (This Feb we have had only one of the pair coming.) Two-inch mesh chicken wire is too large to keep the squirrel out. An interesting observation: the Red-br Nuthatch pair were the first to figure out how to get in through the ch-wire, then chickadees and carolina wrens. But the goldfinches just could never figure out that they had to perch and get in before they could get to the suet. They kept going round and round, never got in. Nari Mistry, Ellis Hollow Rd. -- ___ *Nari B. Mistry*, Ithaca, NY To see my paintings, visit http://www.ArtbyNari.com -- *Cayugabirds-L List Info:* Welcome and Basics http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME Rules and Information http://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Subscribe, Configuration and Leavehttp://www.northeastbirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm *Archives:* The Mail Archivehttp://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html Surfbirds http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds BirdingOnThe.Net http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html *Please submit your observations to eBird http://ebird.org/content/ebird/!* -- -- Don't ask what your bird club can do for you, ask what you can do for your bird club!! ')_,/ -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
[cayugabirds-l] Carolina wren 2.17.2014
At 3:15 p..m. today we saw our 1st ever Carolina Wren here at our house, in the barn feeder atop the clothesline arm. After pecking at some seeds it inspected inside one of the birdboxes on the next clothesline arm. What a treat on this lovely, sunny, cold day. This a.m. a gray squirrel was again thwarted by the 2x4 fencing I put around my roofed platform feeder. I have chicken wire across the front of another open feeder which lets in little birds but not jays doves. The squirrels almost go bonkers, day after day, trying to get in these feeders. Mill pond is filled with Canadas ducks every night. The noise is almost deafening until they settle down to sleep after they get done gossiping telling tales of their adventures of the day. Fritzie ... Union Springs -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
