suet

22
Apr

Downy Woodpeckers

In my blog on 3/19, I posted photos of a pair of Downy Woodpeckers in mating rituals.  Many creatures are just like us – there is courting before mating.  For Downys, this involves looking at each other, fluttering around each other, and chasing each other.  All this happened in the trees on the north shore […]

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19
Feb

Suet – birds can be picky

Downy and Red-bellied Woodpeckers are the big suet eaters at our feeders.  And they relish the suet I make that is in the log feeder my father made for me so many years ago. (The recipe for this suet is under Bird Feeders and Bird Baths in this website’s menu.)  We also have a wire […]

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13
Oct

Feeder and bird seed changes

This morning, Cleon and I changed the bird feeders and what we are offering.  We are now set up for winter.  We did this today because even though we are still having warm temperatures during the day – in the mid-60’s to 70’s – we are starting to experience cooler nights.  Our forecast: most of […]

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