feedthebirds
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I am new here, and have introduced myself in the "Hellow" forum.
I recently received a medium sized wooden feeder with glass sides for free.
I then bought some general wild bird feed and put it out on a shepherds hook.
For several weeks many different birds flocked to the feeder, sparrows, black cap chickadees, cardinals, blackbirds, and the occasional blue-jay.
The problem that I ran into, was that if I didn't bring it in, during a rain, it got wet, and soggy, so I installed a nice, round domed, black trash can lid over it, in the normal rain guard position. I also bought some better feed with more black oil sunflowers, stripe sunflowers, peanut parts, dried cherries, etc.... and mixed it with the original food that they were already coming for.
The bitds have not come back, since the change, except for a couple of visits from our local male cardinal, a blackbird and one sparrow.
I also bought a really nice tube feeder with good, protective pecking holes, and small, flat, curved parches. The sparrows swarmed it, then disappeared. It hangs next to and mostly above the black rain guard for the other feeder.
I also installed a black wrap around squirrel guard under these feeders
Again, they all came for the basic feed, but now I have mixed this more premium feed into it, and almost no business at all, for the better part of a week.
Is the black rain guard scaring the birds away?
Should I paint it some other color?
Any ideas would be appreciated.
I recently received a medium sized wooden feeder with glass sides for free.
I then bought some general wild bird feed and put it out on a shepherds hook.
For several weeks many different birds flocked to the feeder, sparrows, black cap chickadees, cardinals, blackbirds, and the occasional blue-jay.
The problem that I ran into, was that if I didn't bring it in, during a rain, it got wet, and soggy, so I installed a nice, round domed, black trash can lid over it, in the normal rain guard position. I also bought some better feed with more black oil sunflowers, stripe sunflowers, peanut parts, dried cherries, etc.... and mixed it with the original food that they were already coming for.
The bitds have not come back, since the change, except for a couple of visits from our local male cardinal, a blackbird and one sparrow.
I also bought a really nice tube feeder with good, protective pecking holes, and small, flat, curved parches. The sparrows swarmed it, then disappeared. It hangs next to and mostly above the black rain guard for the other feeder.
I also installed a black wrap around squirrel guard under these feeders
Again, they all came for the basic feed, but now I have mixed this more premium feed into it, and almost no business at all, for the better part of a week.
Is the black rain guard scaring the birds away?
Should I paint it some other color?
Any ideas would be appreciated.
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