Feeding Wild Birds

[5Australorpasaures]

Had a Bald Eagle cruise over at tree top level, nice. Half a dozen Titmouse on the feeder. Guess with this big cold front coming through it is pushing wildlife to prepare.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

Had a Bald Eagle cruise over at tree top level, nice. Half a dozen Titmouse on the feeder. Guess with this big cold front coming through it is pushing wildlife to prepare.

I’ve had titmice too. They’ve been all over my suet feeder today along with some finches and woodpeckers of various types. They keep pounding the seeds on the trellises, I’m surprised the sound hasn’t bothered them. I think I saw the Northern Flicker again too! It’s been a while.

 

[TwoCrows]

 

[Snowbelt]

I’ve had titmice too. They’ve been all over my suet feeder today along with some finches and woodpeckers of various types. They keep pounding the seeds on the trellises, I’m surprised the sound hasn’t bothered them. I think I saw the Northern Flicker again too! It’s been a while.

I feed the local birds all winter long. They seem to prefer the black oil sunflower seeds and suet. We've had titmice, woodpeckers, goldfinches, other finches, and cardinals and blue Jays in the past two days, and up to ten on various feeders at once. They have a local circuit between my feeders and those of neighbors and will go from one feeder to the next. In very snowy weather, which we get a lot of, the birds bed down in my balsam fir grove and will flit down to the feeders to grab some seeds or suet and go back again for cover. Some mornings the feeding is more intense, and that invariably means bad weather later that day.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

I feed the local birds all winter long. They seem to prefer the black oil sunflower seeds and suet. We've had titmice, woodpeckers, goldfinches, other finches, and cardinals and blue Jays in the past two days, and up to ten on various feeders at once. They have a local circuit between my feeders and those of neighbors and will go from one feeder to the next. In very snowy weather, which we get a lot of, the birds bed down in my balsam fir grove and will flit down to the feeders to grab some seeds or suet and go back again for cover. Some mornings the feeding is more intense, and that invariably means bad weather later that day.

I make my suet blocks with Safflower seed, but that’s because the European Starlings don’t like it. I’ve also been throwing out a little BSFL for the insectivorous species, which I think the bluebirds are appreciating because I saw one today.

 

[Snowbelt]

I make my suet blocks with Safflower seed, but that’s because the European Starlings don’t like it. I’ve also been throwing out a little BSFL for the insectivorous species, which I think the bluebirds are appreciating because I saw one today.

I should try making my own suet blocks.

I will put some BSFL in with the sunflower seed on occasion just to give the birds a change of pace.

 

[CatInTheHenHouse]

I should try making my own suet blocks.

If you do I recommend the silicone molds. They make popping the finished product out easier and they’re dishwasher safe.

 

[sourland]

Filled both feeders at the club yesterday. They were emptied in just two days. Bird numbers are slowly increasing, but may have been squirrels too. Bird numbers at home are slowly increasing also.

 

[R2elk]

Pretty much just House Sparrows and House Finches today.

 

[TwoCrows]

I've got Scrub, Pinyon and Stellars Jays, Goldfinches, a few Juncos and too many White-winged Doves.