Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Snow Birds, 1 by Muddy1

Muddy1 wrote:
Amanda, lucky you that your starlings are gone; too bad they didn't leave anything for your red bellied woodpecker : - )

Ric, one can't have too many suet feeders! Woodpeckers are so much fun to watch.

Sally, I've seen that the hungrier the birds are, the more "assertive" they are. The funniest thing I saw was a blue jay screeching in a squirrel's face.

In case anyone else finds themselves with 2 vertical suet feeders that woodpeckers get driven away from and no desire to buy a horizontal bottom feeder, here are a few photos showing what I did with mine so that starlings can't eat from them: I attached them to the bottom of a 4" wide board so one side was covered, and put the board through the arbor. The ends of the feeders also rest on the arbor. The starlings were still able to get suet from little gaps, so I placed a 1' wide board on top of the other. Ta da!

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