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Peanut butter is very popular with birds that visit feeders. In the winter,
I buy large jars of it in the bulk food department, then use it to fill a
feeder designed to hold prepackaged suet. At my house this winter peanut
butter is popular with the chickadees and a single red-breasted nuthatch,
and I have known it to attract several varieties of woodpeckers.
As a general rule high-fat foods such as peanut butter and suet serve as
a substitute for insects, which are also high in fat, when insects are
unavailable. However, as a practical matter the birds that eat a combination
of vegetable matter and insects, such as chickadees, seem to be far more
willing to accept insect-substitutes than are birds that eat insects
exclusively.
FYI, at one time people were reluctant to offer straight peanut butter to
birds because there was a widespread belief that the birds could choke on
it. However, as far as I know nobody was ever able to offer any evidence
that this actually occurred. Most people who've looked into the matter no
longer consider it a serious concern.
I've never heard of anyone deliberately feeding dairy products to birds.
However, I did once read that back in the days when milkmen left glass
bottles of milk on doorsteps small birds would peck them open to get at the
cream floating on the top.
Wild Flora in Birch Hill, central Nova Scotia
-----Original Message-----
From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca
[mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca]On Behalf Of Gloria Gilbert
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 2:59 PM
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Thrush
Peanut butter? Also, has anyone offered grated cheese to birds? Perhaps it
is too salty...
Gloria
----- Original Message -----
From: nellie
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 2:18 PM
Subject: [NatureNS] Thrush
Hermit Thrush still here. Appears to be eating finch seed and rolled
oats. Refused rasins, chopped apple, blueberries and grapes.Wish I had
acceptable protein.
Nellie
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very popular with birds that visit feeders. In the winter, I buy =
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of it in the bulk food department, then use it to fill a feeder designed =
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prepackaged suet. At my house this winter peanut butter is =
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a general rule high-fat foods such as peanut butter and suet serve =
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substitute for insects, which are also high in fat, when insects are=20
unavailable. However, as a practical matter the birds that eat a=20
combination of vegetable matter and insects, such as chickadees, seem to =
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at one time people were reluctant to offer straight peanut butter to =
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because there was a widespread belief that the birds could choke on it. =
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never heard of anyone deliberately feeding dairy products to birds. =
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I did once read that back in the days when milkmen left glass =
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of milk on doorsteps small birds would peck them open to get at the =
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Birch Hill, central Nova Scotia</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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Behalf Of </B>Gloria Gilbert<BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, February 06, =
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Thrush<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Peanut butter? Also, has anyone =
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cheese to birds? Perhaps it is too salty...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Gloria</FONT></DIV>
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