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05-01-2007, 07:42 PM | #1 | |||
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You might be sorry you asked!
Bizi saw her first ever Baltimore Oriole at fernwood gardens this morning...now if she could just hear it warble.... I make my own suet...got the recipe from Birds & Blooms Magazine. The birds seem to love it because they go thru it so fast...it's cheaper to make it than buy it....course the dang squirrels like it too. Suet Melt one cup crunchy peanut butter with one cup crisco Remove from heat and add 2 cups corn meal 2 cups quick oats Add one cup flour 1/3 cup sugar and stir in 1/4 cup bird seed. Spray a square 9" pan with cooking oil (Pam) and pour recipe into it. Freeze until solid...cut in squares and put in a suet holder. *whisper...so glad to read that you found a med. that works!
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05-02-2007, 05:46 PM | #2 | |||
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Wow and I thought it was a place for birds to go. This looks easy..even I can do it..........I hope.
But I'm having a real hard time with crows. They're all over and just being obnoxious. My poor Morning Doves are all dazed and confused.
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05-02-2007, 06:15 PM | #3 | ||
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or pack the gunk around pine cones...put on a foil lined cookie sheet and put in the freezer. then just tie a string to them and hang from trees.
hang the pine cones from the trees...or if you are a monkey..hang from the trees yourself. now alffe...don;t you go using that peter pan peanut butter that got recalled for the squirrels.
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05-02-2007, 06:58 PM | #4 | |||
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Maybe this would help. http://www.bird-x.com/products/gallery/terror.html
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05-03-2007, 06:48 AM | #5 | |||
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Curious I buy the cheapest peanut butter I can find cause I really go through the stuff fast...especially this time of year. We've been collecting pine cones for our Sunday school kids...they are making feeders for the birds and as far as I know, they aren't hanging from the trees.
Doody, those scarey eyes would probably work but I don't want to scare away the woodpeckers. we have a huge flicka after the ants and yesterday a pair of redbreasted grosbeeks showed up at the mesh feeder. The male is so much more colorful than his lady. I think he cross dresses. BJ..I am awash in crows and crackles and they are awful. They constantly poop in the birdbath and I've never seen them bath in it. Ok...time to hit the yard....have a great day everyone.
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05-03-2007, 11:36 AM | #6 | |||
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I'm sorry,i hope i don't offend you Doody.I know your trying to help,but that big eyed thing just cracked me up
My parents like to feed the birds and watch them fly in and out f their bird house they have,i will have to tell them about this!
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05-03-2007, 01:43 PM | #7 | |||
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Well ~~ I love almost all the birds including the crows.
I buy enormous amounts of dry dog food for the crows -- they like it so much more than the cracked corn I get for the deer and the sun flower seeds I get for the other birds. I buy peanut suet too -- lots of that -- for all the various woodpeckers and just occassional flicker. We gets lots and lots of enormous pileated woodpeckers that eat an enormous amount of suet. We finally have the humming birds here -- late but here. Somehow the birds make me feel needed and valuable. |
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