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Last spring and summer birds around here were pretty much nonexistent. Except for filling the peanut butter feeders for the Pileated and the Downey's, I don't think I even filled a thistle feeder all summer and the black oil sunflower seed may have had some added to every couple weeks. Even the hummingbirds were in very low numbers compared to years past. I wasn't the only person in the area wondering where all the birds were.
Well I didn't realize how much money that saved me. OHG I have finches by the hundreds and have since it got cold. I mean they are eating me out of house and home! Daily I go through 6 or 7 2# coffee cans of black oil sunflower seed. Our thistle feeder tubes are 4' long and at minimum those will be 1/2 empty or more. In total I have 9 feeders up.
The aerial shows are sometimes out of this world and at least once a week, one will commit suicide by hitting one of our 3 8' sliders. I've already invested $158 this month and I'm heading out to buy more seed yet this afternoon!!!!! The wife thinks that maybe next year we should have fewer feeders.
Every once in awhile something comes along and saves you a little money. For longer than normal today, actually over 2hrs, we had a visitor that slowed down the emptying of the feeders.
Sharp Shinned Hawk
Well I didn't realize how much money that saved me. OHG I have finches by the hundreds and have since it got cold. I mean they are eating me out of house and home! Daily I go through 6 or 7 2# coffee cans of black oil sunflower seed. Our thistle feeder tubes are 4' long and at minimum those will be 1/2 empty or more. In total I have 9 feeders up.
The aerial shows are sometimes out of this world and at least once a week, one will commit suicide by hitting one of our 3 8' sliders. I've already invested $158 this month and I'm heading out to buy more seed yet this afternoon!!!!! The wife thinks that maybe next year we should have fewer feeders.
Every once in awhile something comes along and saves you a little money. For longer than normal today, actually over 2hrs, we had a visitor that slowed down the emptying of the feeders.
Sharp Shinned Hawk