I’ve had Cape May warblers hitting my suet and the seed feeder! Can’t be sure they are picking bugs off of both though... Glenn Ciegler
Sent from my iPad > On May 19, 2019, at 7:27 PM, Jason Frank <[email protected]> wrote: > > In the past 24 hours, the feeders have been overrun by hungry birds. > Anywhere from 10-20 Orioles at a time (Baltimore outnumbering Orchard > roughly 3-1), RB Grosbeaks (3 pairs), Catbirds, Cardinals, Grackles, > House Finches, Goldfinches, 2 late Siskins, Both Nuthatches, Chipping > Sparrows, Woodpeckers D, H, and RB, Warblers Yellow, Yellow-Rumped, > Nashville, Palm, and B&W.* > > *These are only the ones I bothered to ID > > I have lots of orange slices and grape jelly set out; it got down to > 34 here last night, so bugs must be scarce: Warblers and Orioles are > also taking crumbled bits of suet from the platforms. > > Yellow Warblers in particular are coming directly to the deck to take > meal worms from the railing. This morning, they were landing on the > window screens looking for bugs. > > It appears that some Warblers don't recognize/understand suet feeders. > I've only ever seen Yellow-Rumps on them. But if the suet is crumbled > and scattered, on platforms, stumps, logs, railings, or smeared onto > tree trunks, they find it right away. Since the Orioles and Grosbeaks > have come to dominate the platforms, I've spread the feeding sites out > around the yard. The Warblers seem to like it at least 10 yards from > the bigger birds. > > I haven't seen so much savor for suet since the Spring '08 fallout, > when I was living in Isanti Co. > > -- > Jason M. Frank > Ortonville Public Library > Founder & Vice President > Luddite Ornithologists League (LOL) > Big Stone County, Minnesota > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
