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.
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