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Re: Scarlet Tanager and suet
- To: "Shelley Theye" <veery@bellsouth.net>, <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: Re: Scarlet Tanager and suet
- From: "Willem van Eck" <wvaneck@mindspring.com>
- Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 15:53:51 -0400
- Delivered-to: pardo@metalab.unc.edu
- References: <20030519155149.DVWM11617.imf62bis.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net>
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
while on the subject of suet, we have been surprised
to have a daily visit by a couple of frustrated robins trying to
extract suet from a hanging basket, for which their feet
are obviously not adapted, so they pick it out "on the wing"
Willem van Eck in Cary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shelley Theye" <veery@bellsouth.net>
To: <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2003 11:51 AM
Subject: Scarlet Tanager and suet
> A male Scarlet Tanager is spending lots of time on
> a suet cage that hangs from a pole in the yard, eating
> a no-melt orange suet (from the Wild Bird Center). He'll
> even chase off the Downy Woodpeckers who also like
> it. Have seen Summer Tanagers eat this same suet last
> year too. Watched a female Summer Tanager dining on
> a bee or wasp in a tree about 15 ft. up recently.
>
> Shelley Theye
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> Shelley Theye
> N. Chatham County, NC
> veery@bellsouth.net
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