Mid-Atlantic Gardening: BIrds of the Mid-Atlantic: Nature's Entertainers, 1 by Muddy1

Muddy1 wrote:
Sally, I am trying to train my Bluebirds to go into caged suet feeders because the @#$% Starlings hog non-caged suet feeders and scare away almost all of the other birds.

Bluebirds can go inside the caged ones, but they clearly don't want to (can't blame them there). The first one I bought has a slippery metal floor, so I thought that could be the reason.
I bought another one to test my theory: http://www.amazon.com/Songbird-Essentials-Squirrel-Resistant...

I put it on the ground, and try to entice them by putting dried mealworms inside in the hope they'll be motivated to try the cage. I've been leaving only the caged and upside-down suet feeders out until the afternoon because the Starlings are usually gone by then.

The ground feeder was moved 3 feet last night; I suspect by a raccoon or fox.

Ecnalg, did you mean something took your suet feeder from your garage, rather than "gutter"? I figured it was a spell-check error.

This is an old photo of a raccoon helping itself to peanuts.


This message was edited Feb 4, 2015 7:17 PM