Subject: Re: Nuthatches and Hairy Woodpeckers
Date: May 29 23:34:21 1997
From: Katherine Webber - kwebber at ynot.sno.wednet.edu


The crows and starlings leave my suet alone. Maybe it's because I have it
in a wire cage dangling from a tree branch. Only birds with feet adapted
to clutching on in a precarious position can hold on (chickadees,
nuthatches, and woodpeckers).
------>kathie webber, marysville WA

On Tue, 27 May 1997 ravenn at premier1.net wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> This morning I reaped the rewards of having suet feeders in my backyard.
> There was a flurry of activity and small gray bodies flitting in and
> out. Two adult Red-breasted Nuthatches were flying back and forth from
> my suet to their two young ones. The young moved in and among the
> branches of the trees behind my feeders, stopping every once and awhile
> to flutter their wings and beg. As I watched this, two much larger
> birds appeared on the scene. An adult male Hairy Woodpecker with his
> red patch on the back of his head claimed the suet and broke off a
> chunk. He then took the chunk to a nearby tree to feed his young. This
> was a young male with the red patch on the forward part of his head.
>
> For the past three weeks I've been considering taking my suet down
> because of a battle with Crows and Starlings. I'll keep working with my
> upside down feeders and cages. Does anyone have anything that works?
>
> Yvonne Bombardier
> Everett, Wa
> ravenn at premier1.net
>
>