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Originally Posted by Madelaine Amee
I have no input for the artistry on the wall, but John I LOVE what you did with yours. I am a birder so thank you for the feeder and growing the hedge to give them protection.  |
Thanks! Right now we only have a red and brown Cardinal and a Mockingbird who live in the hedge. The mockingbird sits in the tree in the corner and guards the yard, I've even seen him chase a Hawk away. I've seen the Hawks kill about 3 doves in the past couple of years, rip them to pieces. Normally the doves are eating all day from those feeders, in fact we had added third one since the photo.
We normally go through a 25 pound bag of Safflower Seed every two weeks or less, plus grapes and peanuts. The squirrels and black birds don't like Safflower seed. This is the slowest I've seen the bird activity right now and we've feeding them for four years. Come March we'll have a couple more Cardinals if the red one allows it, 4 Brown Thrashers, they love the nuts and grapes, a lot more doves, and maybe a female mockingbird by then. Squirrels we've only got one now, he likes the nuts for sure. We had as many as 4 squirrels, but many neighbors have Massey put out rat poison and the squirrels get into that unfortunately.