Great picture! Thanks for sharing.It's Cardinal feeding frenzy at our house. Couple dozen. 5 Blue jays not around last winter. They dominate the food area. View attachment 140755
Great picture! Thanks for sharing.It's Cardinal feeding frenzy at our house. Couple dozen. 5 Blue jays not around last winter. They dominate the food area. View attachment 140755
Get this - it's undefeated.Saw this and made me laugh. No seed in my pole feeder now. Anything hanging is demolished by squirrels. Finally raccoon proofed the squirrel proof feeder with a high enough thin pole but than the deer emptied it and than knocked it over so at an impasse right now.
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And spray it with silicone, WD40.ect, for added entertainment.To keep the raccoons and squirrels away i had to buy a kids metal saucer sled, drill a hole in the middle and screw it to the pole on top and bottom. It has to be a metal one or wont be a long term situation.
To keep the raccoons and squirrels away i had to buy a kids metal saucer sled, drill a hole in the middle and screw it to the pole on top and bottom. It has to be a metal one or wont be a long term situation.
RascalsMine is finally raccoon and (mostly) squirrel proof but the deer from Theodore Wirth Park have eaten everything under six foot high in my hood. After they stripped all of the arborvitae and yews in the hood they went to raiding my feeder. Actually knocked it over ripping loose the screws attaching the steel pipe/pole to a 4x4 in the ground.
I've got in set up again but with no seed. Also had to discard the bird water heater. Deer just drank it dry. I really HATE deer. Not using the term hate in it's usual casual usage, I really do hate deer at a visceral level.
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Ice fished in the middle of Madison Wednesday afternoon and two sandhills flew overhead. They either never left, or didn't go far away and are back.
January 15th is the earliest I've seen them although I recall seeing groups flying south in early January in years past.
I had a Bald Eagle take out one of the Eurasian Collard-Doves last week. I heard a loud thud on the roof- followed by a second thud just moments later. I went outside to inspect and there were dove feathers everywhere. Of course, there was not a dove carcass in sight.Slightly off topic maybe but I scared up a bald eagle from the tree line mowing today. Didn't know he was there until swooped down in front of me and flew across the yard, got as low as 10 ft and then lifted up and lit in our big pine tree. Sat there a while, I got within about 50ft got some pics.
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Water. We have 6 or 7 bird baths scattered around the property. I get the old concrete ones cheap at auctions. The birds appreciate them during dry stretches. Crow like to moisten their food in them sometimes. Bit of work to keep them filled. Also keep an old galvanized water trough that fills off the shed roof. The squirrels use it. We keep a log reaching out of it as a ladder so the squirrels don't drown.