Well,if you insist on wanting squirrels to stop hanging out at theier favorite spot,why not make a deal with them?Gather up about 500 acorns and I`m sure whithin minutes they`ll see there`s other places to hang out too.
Created from well-founded branches and twigs. I trimmed the trees to take back the view and then came up with a horrendous Idea! I'm going to sculpt a bird ...
I have to have the feeders where I can patently see them from where I've moved my chair inside. I've also got to irascible this doorway up before ...
A bunny eats from a bird feeder on my deck.
Q: On Dec. 21, a bear trashed the birdfeeders on my deck. On Dec. 30 the bear was back in my yard.
I am shocked that they are still out and about. Is it because we had such a mild November?
N.B., Lenox
A: I would prefer another notion, and that is bears den for the winter more because of a lack of food than probably any other reason.
With so many dumpsters providing a free meal, not to mention birdfeeders, pet foods left outside, and a proliferation of wild foods, it is more a question of when will we be seeing bruins all winter, perhaps like gray squirrels, that are active except during the harshest of weather. Q: I have no birds at all at my bird feeder this year. I have had it up in the same place for nine years now and this is the first year there are none.
Can you hazard a guess as to why? I live in Great Barrington in the vicinity of Monument Mountain. My son lives in Blandford and has no birds either.
LINDA, Great Barrington
A: Just last week, we were visiting our daughter Laura who lives on Monument Valley Road in Great Barrington.
I was amazed by the number of birds coming to her two hanging plastic feeders stocked with wild bird mix. There were tree sparrows, chickadees, cardinals, finches of several kinds, and even a dark-eyed junco feeding from the feeder, unlike its flock mates that were feeding on the ground as is usual for them.
Had I the opportunity to watch longer, I am sure the number of kinds would have grown.
Not far from the house and feeders was a red-tailed hawk, surveying the meadow beneath its high perch in a tree. Above it was a lone blue jay.
I thought to myself, how wonderful it would be if everyone who had written me recently about the lack of birds could see this display!
The reason for the large number and variety of birds is the location. Her feeders are close to an alder swamp, pond, fields and mixed woods. One could not possibly ask for a better place.
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Bear spotted in North Branch reported today, Friday, May 18, that a have cub approximately two years old visited their yard last night and was in their balsam tree, adjacent to their deck. The uphold had dismantled a bird feeder and was having a feast on the sunflowers. |
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Playing the bird numbers game We ate lunch on Diane's deck, overlooking many bird feeders which were attracting everything from youthful grackles to humming birds and orioles. Some people a halt feeding too soon. Migrating birds appreciate a authentic meal and almost all are in their most |
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A Plethora of Gray Squirrels They dig up her potted plants, disparage decorative art work off her deck and climb her screen doors to break over to bird feeders. She, too, has temporarily taken down her feeders. “We are literally having a squirrel infestation,” she says. |
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Nectar makes hummingbirds at home in Odessa garden I trotted out and bought a hummingbird feeder, heeding the recommendation of my sister in Indiana — who has dozens of hummingbirds at her lodgings — that the feeder should be red, since the tiny little birds seem to favor that color. I conflicting a batch of nectar: and more » |
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New warnings about Vermont's backyard bears New warnings about Vermont's backyard bearsFood like bird feeders, which invite hungry bears to people's yards. "If they don't get some well-wishing of negative interaction at that time with people than they'll get a prog reward and they'll continue that behavior and it progresses from there to the |
Letter from Skunk Hollow: Bear on the deck and turkeys at the window
By Ron Meador | 05/07/12 The reconcile oneself to came by the other day to flatten the backyard bird-feeder post, again, and to yank down a tandem of suet cages we'd suspended seven or eight feet in the air but not really high enough. He knocked open a galvanized
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Down in the Patch Purvey the birds. With a notable increase in the population of our native birds we impecuniousness to think about their food supplies during winter. To encourage more into your garden and patio or deck, bird feeders are becoming part of indestructible displays and are |
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