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lang=3DEN-CA link=3Dblue vlink The Brown Creepers here refuse to come to either Sunflower seed or suet Like Kate, my suet cage is nailed to a large tree. The feeders are in an open woods situation. The Creepers come around going down and up nearby trees but ignore my offerings completely. Nancy E Dalhousie, Kings Co. On 2017-02-16, at 2:35 PM, Donna Crossland <dcrossland@eastlink.ca> wrote: > Thanks, Kate! Nice to hear. Maybe I need to attach our suet to a larger tree to encourage them. Or do you have a forest edge situation at your pine tree location? > > Donna > > From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] On Behalf Of Kate Steele > Sent: February-16-17 2:18 PM > To: Donna Crossland > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] still supplementing the Sapsucker > > Chris and I have a suet cage nailed to a pine tree and we have two Brown Creepers enjoying the easy meal right now :) > > Kate > > > Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on the Bell network. > From: Donna Crossland > Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2017 1:06 PM > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Reply To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: RE: [NatureNS] still supplementing the Sapsucker > > Take it easy on the shovelling, Paul. The snow that is piled up over the bases of my windows in the valley is about as high as I have ever seen it since we’ve been living here. > > I think some people get brown creepers at their feeders. (Maybe someone will tell me.) I am missing that species here. There is nothing like the male’s sudden cheerful-sounding song in a spruce-hemlock stand in early spring. Maybe if we can allow more forest to grow near the house, we’ll get some. It’s still pretty open around here, and I am sure the sapsucker would like for us to recreate the woodland that would have been here some 400 years ago. We’ve added a pond last year so that should help the tree swallows in their nest boxes this year. You can keep your black ducks though, at least for now. > > There seem to be an ever-growing number of goldfinches. Maybe that’s because we are growing more shrubbery than trees in NS? The evening grosbeaks are here and gone each day. No red polls this year. > > The suet mixed with black oil sunflwr seed is in high demand today. The sapsucker fed early and left. I don’t think he liked like spending time with some 20 twittering goldfinches, several purple finches, and even a couple of blackbirds (females). > Must run and listen to the Stewart McLean special on CBC. We lost another good one. > > Donna > > From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] On Behalf Ofrita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca > Sent: February-16-17 9:06 AM > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] still supplementing the Sapsucker > > Interesting Donna - we have about the same mix minus the Sapsucker! > White Breasted Nuthatchs nd Brown Creepers are common in the treesback in Marc > but I never see them at the feeders. Must get insects of the trees. > We always fed a flock of ducks in the yard. Mallards mostly with some Blacks > and a few others. Sometimes up to 50 but this year none. Someone else must > be putting out better meals. They were here until the end of November then disappeared. > I used to feed cracked corn but maybe they will come back in March. > There was a good number of Blacks along Western Shore yesterday - maybe 200 > never all Blacks with only a few Mallards. I'll go count them when theres no snow to shovel! > Its a year for Goldfinches. Seems to be more plentiful than > other years - a dozen or so Purple Finch today. > Well the snow will give us something to do for a few more days. > Enjoy the shoveling! Its a good time to watch for birds! > Paul > > On February 13, 2017 at 9:34 PM Donna Crossland <dcrossland@eastlink.ca> wrote: > > Our yellow-bellied sapsucker is still coming to our suet feeder when he has to. When the temperature drops, he comes back. His deep red throat and cap are gorgeous. His yellowy breast feathers seem to blow in the wind far more than those of the downy and hairy. I have the impression that he is not as well insulated. So far, despite the blizzard, temperatures have not been too bad this winter so my impression is that he’ll make it though. > > I’d place my bets on the sapsucker over that poor little indigo bunting. > > Lots of ‘feeder frenzy’ went on today, but nothing out of the ordinary. Two pairs of cardinals, lots of goldfinches (more than I’d prefer), some evening grosbeaks, one male pheasant, chickadees, one white-breasted nuthatch, slate-coloured juncos, a few purple finches (noted only one male and two female), and a few American tree sparrows. > >
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