Comments on: Bird feeders http://blog.blithewold.org/trees/bird-feeders/ a garden journal about public garden maintenance, seasonal tasks, garden events, stories about gardening, volunteers, flowers, bugs and wildlife Sun, 19 May 2013 12:25:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Lynn http://blog.blithewold.org/trees/bird-feeders/comment-page-1/#comment-9315 Lynn Sat, 20 Nov 2010 16:29:05 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=4325#comment-9315 The berries do seem to go fast! I haven't cut much of anything down if it has seed heads. Our sunflowers (ones the chipmunks didn't unearth) didn't really get to set mature seeds, but I left the big heads on the ground in case something can make use of them. I'd heard that goldfinches love coneflowers, but never saw any on ours til this year--a welcome visitor indeed. Now to clean and fill the one little feeder we do keep in fall and winter! <em>Lynn, I'm glad to hear the goldfinches are visiting you - I hardly ever catch them eating but our coneflowers are definitely starting to look like empty sticks... not very winter-interesting anymore! -kris </em> The berries do seem to go fast! I haven’t cut much of anything down if it has seed heads. Our sunflowers (ones the chipmunks didn’t unearth) didn’t really get to set mature seeds, but I left the big heads on the ground in case something can make use of them. I’d heard that goldfinches love coneflowers, but never saw any on ours til this year–a welcome visitor indeed. Now to clean and fill the one little feeder we do keep in fall and winter!

Lynn, I’m glad to hear the goldfinches are visiting you – I hardly ever catch them eating but our coneflowers are definitely starting to look like empty sticks… not very winter-interesting anymore! -kris

]]> By: Layanee http://blog.blithewold.org/trees/bird-feeders/comment-page-1/#comment-9312 Layanee Sat, 20 Nov 2010 15:11:21 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=4325#comment-9312 The birds seem more active this year and are having a field day, literally, in the grass weeds on the sunny compost heap in the back field. The dogs run first and the birds fly by the dozens from the debris. Cooper has learned to love chasing birds. I don't think they are in danger though. <em>Layanee, I wonder if the birds know something we don't about the winter forecast... A fruitless chase is excellent exercise - a tired pup is a well-behaved one! -kris</em> The birds seem more active this year and are having a field day, literally, in the grass weeds on the sunny compost heap in the back field. The dogs run first and the birds fly by the dozens from the debris. Cooper has learned to love chasing birds. I don’t think they are in danger though.

Layanee, I wonder if the birds know something we don’t about the winter forecast… A fruitless chase is excellent exercise – a tired pup is a well-behaved one! -kris

]]> By: Susan Sims http://blog.blithewold.org/trees/bird-feeders/comment-page-1/#comment-9282 Susan Sims Sat, 20 Nov 2010 03:03:47 +0000 http://blog.blithewold.org/?p=4325#comment-9282 I've mentioned this before, but the birds don't touch the non-natives here until January when they start getting desperate. Since I'm beginning to plant more natives in the garden, we'll see what turns up. Juncos have been hopping around on the bare dirt exposed from the deck removal. More and more I begin to realize that traditional gardening is such a turn-off for wildlife. <em>Too true, Susan. I'm coming to the same realization. (What took me so long?) -kris</em> I’ve mentioned this before, but the birds don’t touch the non-natives here until January when they start getting desperate. Since I’m beginning to plant more natives in the garden, we’ll see what turns up. Juncos have been hopping around on the bare dirt exposed from the deck removal. More and more I begin to realize that traditional gardening is such a turn-off for wildlife.

Too true, Susan. I’m coming to the same realization. (What took me so long?) -kris

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