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Momma Chuck is back…

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And enjoying some broccoli.

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Early spring means red winged black birds, starlings and grackles.

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Lots of them.

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And they’re hungry. So hungry they devour the suet cake in less than an hour and strip three feeders in two. It’s a pricey time of year.

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We have three or four skunks who visit every night but one little guy arrives early, oftentimes alongside the deer.

That does not however, mean he likes them.

(Please ignore the background noise. The husband was battling an angel food cake container)

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Skunk -1.

Deer -0.

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And then there’s Lord Dudley Mountcatten who waits patiently for his morning coffee.

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He doesn’t actually drink it…

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Just likes to lick the mug when the husband is finished.

Cats.

What can you do?

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❤️

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  2. See if you can break my record.
    When a neighbour moved out he bequeathed us his extra large homemade bird feeder, but did not tell us what to put in it. So we bought a bag of birdseed and put it out. It attracted some birds but not many. So we went tho the farm store and looked around. I spotted some chicken feed,bought a bag, and put that out. It must have attracted 1000 sparrows, because our 3 trees were full, every picket in the fence had two sparrows sitting on it. The large feeder looked like a pulsing carpet of sparrow-feathered carpet, and somehow they knew when it was their turn to feed. They waited patiently for seemingly hours. We filled the feeder 4 or 5 times that day, it held about 6 gallons of feed at a time. The feeder was filled about once an hour until the bag was empty. They ate till the last crumb was gone. We rushed out to the farmstore but it was in the next town, 85 kms away. Luckily the store was closed. Yes I said luckily. We got a bag of chicken feed from a farmer friend, and put it out for morning. The next day all we had were a parliament of crows over 12 hours at least, not one sparrow showed. Not one! So I compared the bags and found the difference. The egg farmer’s bag was plain chickenfeed for young hens. The bag we bought at the farmstore was for layer chickens to increase egg production. So back to the farmstore and then home again after work. It was past aparrow time, they never show up before sunrise or after the sun reaches a certain unknown point in the Western sky. We put out the layer feed for morning.
    The feeder was under our bedroom window, so we were surprised at the silence in the morning. We looked and there was not one bird, of any persuasion at the feeder. When we got home from work it was still there untouched. Now why? They had vacuumed them up the first day. For a week we left the layer feed in the feeder, but not one seed was eaten by anyone. So we cleaned out the feeder and put in black oil sunflower seeds. It brought birds back, but never anything on the scale we had the first day. Sparrows came and went, so at least we knew we didn’t poison a whole ubiquity of sparrows. Maybe that first night the birds went home and screwd their little heads off, or they got too sick to fly for a couple days. We will never know. We gave the layer feed to the egg farmer in exchange for a dozen fresh eggs. We never saw THAT aany sparrows in one place ever again. The feed must have smelled really tasty, but the change from one day to the next was impossible to comprehend.

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    1. That’s odd. We buy the fruit, nut and seed blend. Horribly expensive, but all the birds (and squirrels, and raccoons etc) love it. I used to refill the feeders multiple times during the day but when the prices skyrocketed during Covid and never went down, now it’s first come first serve until they’re empty. Early spring is a feeding frenzy, it quiets down after that.

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