I don't throw out peanuts--too many squirrels already, but I have a number of spotted towhees that use my yard. They will readily fly to the large squirrel guard I have below my front feeders and then fly up and grab a few seeds from the feeders. At least one has learned to fly and cling, briefly, to a suet feeder,peck a chunk, then fly down to the ground and eat it. These are usually males.

Christine Southwick
N Seattle/Shoreline
clsouthwick at q.com



On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Nancy Wagner wrote:

> We've got a couple of Towhees who sit and eat on our seed feeder (about 5
> feet off the ground) and one who runs out super fast from under the pine
> tree to grab a peanut when I throw a few out for the blue jays. So, now you
> know of at least two yards that have Towhees on feeders and eyeing those
> peanuts!
>
> Nancy
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