[phillyblues]

Sorry to hear. I know the feeling!

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I am, but unfortunately after just walking the dogs the sparrows are ready too. They’re everywhere. Still enjoying my daily oriole visits.

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Cool. I actually saw a mealworm feeder(dry?) The other day by perky pets. It looks like a normal plastic tube feeder (blue). I wondered if it actually works.

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I go through these hot streaks with the groind traps. They seem to go for the bread or crackers like saltines, goldfish. I don’t use seeds. I keep it near the house near the trash cans. Hope you’re still getting bluebirds on the suet. Exciting.

[phillyblues]

Happy new year, Connie.

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Yeah I won’t use the van ert until spring since i have woodpeckers thatvroost in my boxes.

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Up to about 60 now. They keep coming.

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David, you may be able to switch over to the dried ones now that you have them coming. My brother puts a pile of them out on a platform feeder and gets about a dozen bluebirds all day long gobbling them up. He gets a giant bag of them on Amazon.

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The lighting was not the best so at first I wasnt positive…but it was the size of a bluebird…definitely not robin sized. When i enhance the contrast and saturation, the blue back really starts to come alive. I have a new Peterson box 8 feet from of that spruce. Maybe he is checking it out.

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It’s been pretty warm, maybe they are just not hunkering down yet. Good luck, hope they return. I am busy back trapping. So many sparrows. Had a sharpy? hawk trying to get my trapped hosps for an hour. If I could turn this into a hawk feeder it would be perfect.

Hawk desperately trying to get my hosps

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I like the way they look when lifeless out in the backyard for nightly critter feeding. Awful creatures.

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My van ert has been great..but I started too late. Lesson learned. I have a cage hooked up to the inside of my shed. This guy on youtube claims 500 a year for a couple years and now he is only getting a handful.

https://youtu.be/ImFkrZo6Se4

[phillyblues]

Uggg that stinks! Dud year for my trail box too with loss of a whole clutch of ready to fledge babies to a completely random hosp attack. No tree swallow or blues in my yard this year either. Bad year for hosps…just been van erting all summer. Hope she returns Rich!!

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Yeah seems too cutesy and I don’t understand the point of that diagonal piece. Sparrows ruin everything.

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