[NatureNS] Bluejays

From: kenmcken@eastlink.ca
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Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:40:41 -0300
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Hi Eleanor 
I would love to have a picture of this. Would be great to get rid of my rock doves. 
Thanks 
Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: Eleanor Lindsay <kelindsay@eastlink.ca>
Date: Friday, October 23, 2009 8:57 am
Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Bluejays

> With me, bluejays always tend to dominate feeders at the beginning 
> of 
> the winter, but this year does seem excessively bad so far. I too 
> have a 
> dome feeder, by the way, but no matter how much I keep lowering 
> the 
> dome, the bluejays are still clever and determined enough to 
> weazle 
> their way inside!
> The bluejay monopoly is making a currently popular British method 
> of 
> feeding small birds increasingly appealing; it is essentially a 
> large 
> (approx2-2&1/2 ft square, 3ft high) gable roofed bird cage with 
> slats 
> wide enough to allow all small birds to enter and which is placed 
> on the 
> ground or a platform. One can hang small seed feeders, peanuts or 
> place 
> bowls of seeds, water etc on the bottom. I can send a picture to 
> anyone 
> interested - the idea has potential....
> 
> Eleanor Lindsay
> Seabright, St Margarets Bay
> 
> Gail Bruhm wrote:
> > Perhaps most people are experiencing this right now. I have  the 
> > Duncraft Super Cling-a-Wing Small Bird Feeder and the Aspects 
> Vista 
> > Dome Bird Feeder - with the moveable dome (both displayed on the 
> For 
> > the Birds website) are larger bird proof
> >
> > Gail Bruhm
> > Halifax
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lois Codling" 
> > <loiscodling@hfx.eastlink.ca>
> > To: "Nature NS" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 8:20 PM
> > Subject: [NatureNS] Bluejays
> >
> >
> >> Has anyone found a solution to the problem of Bluejays 
> occupying all the
> >> feeders for the months of Sept. & Oct.?  We seem to have lost 
> all our
> >> Purple Finch and the Goldfinch, Chickadees, Nuthatches, etc. 
> are having
> >> a lot of trouble getting anything.  We put out Grey-striped 
> Sunflower>> Seed, which the Bluejays prefer, in a separate feeder 
> to distract them,
> >> but there are so many young Jays that they still prevent the 
> smaller>> birds from getting at the other feeders.  We are trying 
> hulled, cracked
> >> sunflower seed this year in 2 feeders, because the smaller 
> birds can get
> >> their requirements faster and easier.  I thought the Bluejays would
> >> prefer not to store this seed, as it will spoil more easily 
> than the
> >> kind with hull on.  But they don't seem to know that.  We have also
> >> thought of putting wire cages over our hanging feeders so that the
> >> larger birds cannot get in.  This we have not yet managed to do 
> because>> we haven't found the right size wire grids to do it ( in 
> that regard,
> >> does anyone know how big a hole the Jays can get through?)
> >>
> >> Any suggestions would be appreciated.  (I think the time the 
> Jays store
> >> food is nearly over for this year, but maybe we can do 
> something next 
> >> year!)
> >>
> >> Lois Codling
> >> L. Sackville
> >
> >
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