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Re: Scarlet Tanager and suet



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
> 
>  
> 
> Shelley Theye
> N. Chatham County, NC
> veery@bellsouth.net
> 
>