Patrick Sweeney Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 The Juncos are back, elbowing the finches off the feeders (the finches elbow back) and the new Cardinal feeder had action in less than 24 hours. As a bonus, the new Cardinal feeder is also luring a Nuthatch or two. I cna hardly wait for my new, big telephoto lens to get some photos to show. I think they're getting to know me. When I re-fill with thistle seed, they just flutter off a branch or two away, waiting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 Cool, we still have the migratiory robins here to brighten up the landscape... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 Funny you should mention all this... There were actually birds singing in the pines here most of the past few days. It's been dry all winter and warm just the past week. The early flowering trees already bloomed and I'm seeing fat leaf buds on some of the trees. (the major big bloomers will be another month or so.) There's hope. ...(except for our dwindling water supply...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 Raining here today...and going to get colder this weekend.. Spring is trying to get here, but winter is not letting go just yet..it does not have that moist wet smell when you go outside...certain sign of Spring .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosby Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 Damn, my wife is up to $40 a week for birdfeed (although the squirrels eat the vast majority). The birds are nice but she is sending me to the the poorhouse! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 Gah, and I thought my humble shooting habit was expensive! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 wow...that is over two grand a year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chp5 Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 Damn, my wife is up to $40 a week for birdfeed (although the squirrels eat the vast majority). If it wasn't for my pellet gun, the birds would get nothing because the squirels would eat it all! I don't kill them, just discourage them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Sweeney Posted February 28, 2005 Author Share Posted February 28, 2005 Use clear plastic dones and the like to keep them off. Even persistent squrrels give up after fallign to the ground a half-dozen times. If I hadn't figured out how to outwit the squirrels, the Cardinals and Nuthatches would get nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chp5 Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 Use clear plastic dones What is a clear plastic done? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 CLEAR....PLASTIC DONE A Glock range command? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Sweeney Posted February 28, 2005 Author Share Posted February 28, 2005 OK, ok, ok. You guys got me there. Clear plastic dome. AKA: Catherine the Greats IUD. It goes on top of the feeder, and squirrels slide off to plop onto the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 A .22 cb cap makes them slide to the ground too..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Hayden Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 For bird food, check around, I'm using about 100#'s a month. If the quail were not so picky, I could be using stuff for $10 for 50#'s but they want the $13 stuff. The other birds seem to eat anything... and the hawks get those that are too busy eating to pay attention to thier surroundings.. usually Dove or sparrows. Kind of cool to watch.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 My mom feeds the birds and squirrels outside her apartment (we have so many squirrels here in Eugene I've long since quit caring what happens to them), and announced that the squirrels have now reached the point where they're having way-physical knock-down-drag-outs before her very eyes... ripping and tearing each other's fur out and leaving chunks of it on the lawn. The birds come in, meanwhile, and eat while the squirrels are too busy fighting over the food that the birds have snuck in to eat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tightloop Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 Those pesky squirrels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chp5 Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 Those pesky squirrels also known a "tree rats." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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