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Thorn..Elegant for sure.........

Thanks for the view.. Whats he doing at the finch feeder?

That was a beautiful shot indeed.Must of took all day to get it ?

awesome.

Naw, It took less than 5 minutes to get that shot. He was flying around and landed next to that Hummingbird feeder just 10 feet from me. No planning needed.

Gad ours would never come that close to humans.

he's trying to hide from you Barb.

HA

he keeps looking for you dodge

I'll be darned Sheri.........

Thats where he is again..LOL

I quit feeding sunflower seed.HD said let them pick their own for the warm months..

Tee hee.

I had a few left and when the safflower seeds were gone I put them out hoping the grackles wouldn't return. The cardinals don't seem to like the safflower but they sure like the sunflower seeds.

just let me interject here---I am feeding safflower seeds now too--and yes the crows, crackles & brown-headed cowbirds are gone as well, just like diane promised----BUT so are all but 1 of my gold finches. All I have coming to that feeder is house finches, all be it a lot of them, and the occasional sparrow.

The cardinals came for a few days but would sit on 1 perch & try unsuccessfully to get at the seed at the port by that perch. --IF they had of gone to the other side of the feeder, they could have sat on the bottom perch & ate off of the top port--and done it quite easily--silly birds---

so I guess when the safflower seed is gone, I will go back to the thistle and just put up with the annoying birds.

Put the safflower seed on a PLATFORM Feeder. Cardinals and some other birds have a lot of trouble eating from a tube feeder and need a large flat surface to feed from, like an old table top.

I still have my thistle feeder for the gold finches and you're exactly right Juniegirl, I have finches galore eating the safflower seeds. I'll let you know if the grackles come back.

Cardinals eat from the hopper feeder with safflowers seeds every day.

Diane


Thanks that was suck a pretty cardinal.
Nice way to brightenen my end of the funeral Ordeal..

I better get some of those seeds.
Thistle is pricey..

d

Thanks for the advice, Thorny but with all that has gone on this year I think I will wait until next year before I ask DH for any more favors such as making me a platform feeder---

Got an old picnic table? A sheet of scrap plywood you can fasten horizontally to something? That's all it takes for a platform feeder. You can even use the ground. Birds don't care what it looks like or how well it's made. My first platform feeder was a piece of scrap plywood I nailed on top of the doghouse. It worked like a charm. I now have a small stainless steel table on my front deck that I use as a platform feeder.

Heck all I used for mine in the winter, is a flat board and put 4 little catches on the sides..
Placed it on my Birdbath.. They came and they saw........



Now That I am a frogg.. I croak each day

That'll do er, Dodge. That's ALL you need to do. Nothing Fancy......SIMPLICITY!