Subject: Re: Suet feeders
Date: Nov 21 14:21:36 1998
From: Don Baccus - dhogaza at pacifier.com


At 12:43 PM 11/21/98 -0800, S. Downes wrote:
>Tweets,
>Once again starlings have taken over the suet. Despite the fact that I
>live in a city apartment the suet gets quite a bit of use when the
>starlings are gone like flocks of Bushtits, BC Chickadees and even the
>occassional GC and RC kinglets investigate it. My question is, is there
>anything that might help deter the starlings so the other species can use
>the suet feeder?

You need to convince WDF&W to relocate the Everett spotted owl to
your neighborhood, since it had apparently learned to take starlings :)

(heck, I'm just in the mood for a little frivolity)



- Don Baccus, Portland OR <dhogaza at pacifier.com>
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