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Index of Subjects Roughly 6'; fingertip to fingertip with arms spread. It is a handy measure for many purposes. Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Annabelle Thiebaux" <hamst@xplornet.com> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 8:21 AM Subject: Re: Short-sighted WP: Re: [NatureNS] Aggressive Hummingbird > What is a span David? > > On 11/08/13 10:38 AM, David & Alison Webster wrote: >> Hi Don & All, Aug 11, 2012 >> Your comment about the Downy freezing at the hint of danger reminded >> me of an experience last winter suggesting that Downy and Hairy >> Woodpeckers are short-sighted. >> >> For many years I have hung a stick of firewood, with 16 staggered >> 3/4" diameter holes about 1/2" deep, horizontally in a shrub and kept >> them supplied with fat during cold weather. The Downy & Hairy WP often >> also fed in a nearby Ash and would usually come to the fat from the Ash. >> >> After Alison became confined to wheelchair she could not see the >> birds visit this stick so I decided to move it this winter to another >> location that was visible from a low window by hanging a second stick at >> the new location and withholding fat from the first. This second location >> was about 15 paces from the Ash home base and about 20 paces from the >> bush in which the old stick hung. >> >> To effect this move, to a stick at the second location that was in >> full view from the Ash, took about 6 weeks !! >> >> They would find fat in a post that was half a span from the feeder >> currently used but ignore a post that was a span away. So I leapfrogged >> posts by half-span increments; shifting the oldest forward after they >> were finding fat at the most recent. >> >> In the process of doing this I learned that they strongly prefer to >> feed on a vertical post as opposed to an angled post or a horizontal >> stick. >> >> Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Don MacNeill >> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca >> Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 1:26 PM >> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Aggressive Hummingbitd >> >> >> 4 parts water, 1 part sugar. Do you think I am making it hyperactive >> like children who get too much sugar? :>) >> >> Don >> >> >> Don MacNeill donmacneill@bellaliant.net >> On 09/08/2013 7:36 AM, Hebda, Andrew J wrote: >> >> Out of curiosity, how strong a sugar solution are you using? >> >> Andrew >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] on >> behalf of Don MacNeill [donmacneill@bellaliant.net] >> Sent: August-09-13 6:38 AM >> To: NaturenNS >> Subject: [NatureNS] Aggressive Hummingbitd >> >> I bought and hung out a hummingbird feeder about a week ago. Yesterday a >> hummingbird fed from it and decided to stake out its territory. It >> chased away Black-capped Chickadees that were feeding at a sunflower >> feeder that was 20 feet away fram the hummingbird feeder. It chased a >> House Sparrow from my backyard. It dove at a Downy Woodpecker but >> stopped about a foot from it and flew back to a bush. Interestingly, >> the woodpecker froze as it normally does when danger threatens. It was >> quite a while before the woodpecker resumed feeding at the peanut feeder. >> >> I hope the dog-in-the-manger hummingbird doesn't succeed in keeping the >> whole yard for itself. >> >> Don >> -- >> Don MacNeill donmacneill@bellaliant.net >> >> >> >> >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2013.0.3392 / Virus Database: 3211/6563 - Release Date: >> 08/09/13 >> > > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2013.0.3392 / Virus Database: 3211/6563 - Release Date: 08/09/13 >
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