In anticipation of the living room being finished, two months ago I hung a bird feeder outside the living room window\u00a0so I would be able to sit in my\u00a0comfy chair this winter and watch my winter time friends.<\/p>\n
For a long time only the cardinals were visiting. Apparently the safflower that the feed store gave me is popular with cardinals but not too many other species. So I changed feed to something a wide variety of birds would like (safflower, black oil sunflower seeds, millet, peanuts, raisins). I also got a second feeder and put thistle in it hoping to attract finches.<\/p>\n
Boy did I ever attract the birds! In addition to the cardinal family I now have black capped chick-a-dees, nuthatches, titmice, mourning doves, one grackle (thank goodness), the occasional Blue Jay and sparrows, but no finches yet. I was so excited! “Was” being the key word in that sentence.<\/p>\n
We are now over run with sparrows. Daily a flock of anywhere from 20 to 40 shows up and stays until the feeder is empty; that is 3lbs of bird seed a day.<\/p>\n
What to do? I did some research on what my favorite birds liked to eat and went back to the feed store and purchased peanuts, safflower and the same mix I’ve been using. I made up my own mix\u00a0going a little lighter on the sunflower seed and heavier on the safflower and peanuts. I also hung a suet feeder and smeared peanut butter on the trunk of the tree and pressed seed into that for the nuthatch and titmouse.<\/p>\n
We will see what happens over the next week or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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