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Index of Subjects Here it is fairly common especially when the young come out at first. For about 10 days each of the 3 feeders have been empty each morning. I sometimes get up to peak (cats tell me we have a visitor) and see the guilty party tipping the feeder every so slightly and drinking from the ports. Most of the other birds seem to leave it alone now except the blue jays. They still visit and try to drink, usually successfully, oh and the American Goldfinches. MargMillard, White Point, Queens http://margmillard.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eleanor Lindsay" <az678@chebucto.ns.ca> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 9:24 AM Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Squirrel sweet tooth >> Talking of creatures with a sweet tooth, I am currently battling one > which has taken to raiding and emptying my hummingbird feeder every chance > it gets! The feeder hangs in a tree and several times this season I have > found the recently filled feeder completely empty in the morning, still > hanging from its site, but totally sticky and grubby with bits of leaf and > twiglets all over the outside. One evening after dark I noticed unusual > branch movement and on going out to check scared away something large > (most likely a raccoon - but it could also have been a porcupine, several > of which have some of my trees under attack - and the feeder was once > again empty. I have checked that it is functioning normally and not > leaking). This is a first after two decades of hummer feeding. How common > is it for raccoons and/or porcupines to go for sugar water like this? > > Eleanor Lindsay > Seabright NS >
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