Blue jays love peanuts.Woodpeckers love suet.Sunflower seeds are good for attracting cardinals, chickadees, nuthatches, red-wing blackbirds, starlings and some others. I have, upon a singular occasion, observed a tufted titmouse. Many birds, though they will visit a feeder, are not terribly fond of feeders and prefer to eat from the ground like the little savages that they are.
Wow, so many birders and bird feeders among Teresa’s faithful. I might have known. My favorite spot for birding is my good friend’s house in Santa Fe, NM. The Western Tanagers are always very cool, but we also like to the Spotted Towhees, Scott’s Orioles, and Ash-Throated Flycatchers. Anyway, my advice to Scrooge here is, fill your feeders well, or you have a visit from Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren.
My feeder mix is mostly black oil sunflower seeds with a bit of sunflower chips (shelled seeds) and a few peanuts.@prettyfeet from yesterday the llamas were guarding sheep.
@Meh-tdology also suet for pretty much any woodpecker.
LINK to my Flickr post of that pic and a much bigger image.
“grubs…”-—————————————Not when he’s hanging off my suet block or other feeders.(My really good camera is 35mm film.So I’ll have to make do with a digital shot through a dirty bathroom window to illustrate my point.)
Mad-ge Dish Soap over 8 years ago
The top shelf stuff…
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr over 8 years ago
My jays pic them all out of the mix then fly off elsewhere to crack ’em open.
I just want to know what the red bellied woodpecker’s preferences are.
Bill Thompson over 8 years ago
Quoth the rancid seed-giver, “Nevermore!”
Brass Orchid Premium Member over 8 years ago
Blue jays love peanuts.Woodpeckers love suet.Sunflower seeds are good for attracting cardinals, chickadees, nuthatches, red-wing blackbirds, starlings and some others. I have, upon a singular occasion, observed a tufted titmouse. Many birds, though they will visit a feeder, are not terribly fond of feeders and prefer to eat from the ground like the little savages that they are.
The Old Wolf over 8 years ago
Seeds and nuts do go rancid pretty fast. You don’t want to alienate your birds.
Sisyphos over 8 years ago
That raven is getting to be too loquacious for his own good!What if I spike the sunflower seeds with powders of arsenic?
William Neal McPheeters over 8 years ago
Stingy, mean, miserly, niggardly, close-fisted, parsimonious, Scroogelike feeder seeder.
coltish1 over 8 years ago
Wow, so many birders and bird feeders among Teresa’s faithful. I might have known. My favorite spot for birding is my good friend’s house in Santa Fe, NM. The Western Tanagers are always very cool, but we also like to the Spotted Towhees, Scott’s Orioles, and Ash-Throated Flycatchers. Anyway, my advice to Scrooge here is, fill your feeders well, or you have a visit from Rod Taylor and Tippi Hedren.
Larry Miller Premium Member over 8 years ago
My feeder mix is mostly black oil sunflower seeds with a bit of sunflower chips (shelled seeds) and a few peanuts.@prettyfeet from yesterday the llamas were guarding sheep.
@Meh-tdology also suet for pretty much any woodpecker.
LINK to my Flickr post of that pic and a much bigger image.
Larry Miller Premium Member over 8 years ago
Finally. Dang GoComics kept formatting the HTML like it was text I was posting which didn’t work very well.
Meh~tdology, fka Pepelaputr over 8 years ago
“grubs…”-—————————————Not when he’s hanging off my suet block or other feeders.(My really good camera is 35mm film.So I’ll have to make do with a digital shot through a dirty bathroom window to illustrate my point.)
Happy, happy, happy!!! Premium Member over 8 years ago
Feeding table raider.
Lyons Group, Inc. over 8 years ago
Oh, how I long for a bird house. And when I do get one, I’ll know what to use for wallpaper…this strip.