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Ordinary Stuff
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Ordinary Stuff
- From: Ernest Snavely <snavely4@sccoast.net>
- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 21:56:49 -0500
- Delivered-to: pardo@metalab.unc.edu
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
For the past month we have had orioles, first one for a week, then two etc.
eating our home made suet. The suet ran out one day and before we could
get new made the birds were picking around the feeders. I put out an
orange slice, cut across the core and split open so I could slip it over a
feeder wire. Within 10 minutes an oriole, and with a few more slices a
total for sure of 5. Two males, two females and an imm. male. The latter
is the most frequent visitor. They would eat an orange a day if I put them
out.
In general birds prefer our peanut butter suet 4 to one over the best
purchased suet. Next best numerous bird is the Pine Warbler, half a dozen
or so.
This evening when I was finishing up about 6:00 PM I saw a C. wren go into
a box under the eaves. Is she roosting or nesting?
Ernest Snavely, Loris, SC snavely4@sccoast.net