You popped the peanut butter question to the Cornell lab staff.

What answer did you receive?

Scott
Yakima

On Jan 13, 2008 12:16 PM, cwilsdon at earthlink.net <cwilsdon at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> I popped a question to the staff at Cornell's lab of ornithology to get an
> update on the peanut-butter question. I imagine most people stop using
> peanut butter by spring because it gets rancid in warm weather as well as
> drippy, but since it is such a popular thing to advise kids to do
> (peanut-butter-slathered pine cones for example) it behooves us to get the
> most up-to-date info on that. I'd hate to be passing along this activity to
> my Girl Scouts, for example, if it is actually ill-advised.
> And as for the hummingbirds--I was watching a busy bunch of juncos,
> chickadees, bushtits, and one Bewick's wren feeding in my yard, beneath and
> on a suet feeder yesterday morning when suddenly I refocused my eyes to meet
> the gaze of an Anna's hummingbird zipping back and forth in front of the
> window 3 feet away from me. He looked as if he were peering at me but I
> quickly realized he was actually investigating the boldly patterened grill
> cover beneath the window, which is bright green covered with hot pink and
> red flowers. He looked perplexed, then resigned as he buzzed off!
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