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Great! I made it as easy for them as possible. To begin with I put mine in a flat pie pan (glass or ceramic for slick sides) and put that in a rod iron flower pot stand. I wanted to use white because I felt they could see the mealworms better but I only had clear. I felt they could see the mealworms crawling around in the pie pan easier from their piercing area. If course so can the other birds. Mockers and robins are bad too at raiding the mealworms.
If during the season they perch on a fence or something I would put it there. Where they can look down on it. They also should be checking out their nestbox too so close to that would be a good location.
Hope they find it soon!Tammy
They’ll only see them if they fly closer to your feeder. Usually I suggest putting the mealworms where you see them perching but obviously you can’t do that across the street. If you see them perching in your yard though… Do that. And later you can move your feeder closer and closer to your house. They love homemade suet too.
Tammy
Chris, there’s a good chance this is not the same hawk. This is a Buteo instead of an Accipter and buteos don’t normally hunt birds. It occasionally happens but not at all the norm. They aren’t fast enough. They mainly look for critters on the ground. This one is probably just perching on your housing. The culprit was probably a sharp shinned or a coopers.
I know the frustration though. Years ago I had a coopers gouge my daddy bluebird right after his babies fledged.Tammy
Sorry that I’m never on. I wish we could get notificiations from this group but they don’t seem to work for me. I’m busy with Grandkids most days.
But I love the Sparrow Spooker plans from Fred, who used to frequent this group, years ago.
Scroll down a bit to get to it and click on the PDF link. I use the one that has a quick mount/dismount. http://nestboxbuilder.com/nestbox-predator-controls.html-
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Tammy
Wow… Great ending. Unfortunately my 5 eggs didn’t hatch. Maybe the first time for me. Too much spring cold weather up here. I opened one just to be sure and found that they were barely starting to develop. So hard.
Tammy
Carol. It’s always cold here in the spring so I normally do not worry about it. Mama was sitting on eggs so I figured they would be just fine. It’s when there are babies that I worry more but my five eggs didn’t hatch. I had to remove them. So I guess it did get too cold. Breaks my heart especially because I was taking my granddaughter out to check every day, looking forward to showing her hatchlings. 😭
Tammy
As in a Gilwood? The wood box and not the PVC one right? My blues love the Gilwood box!!! They prefer it.
Tammy
Sorry. I just figured everyone has heard of it. It’s been out there in the internet and talked about for awhile. Julie Zickefoose is a writer artist and naturalist. She created a suet recipe for her bluebirds similar to the ones that we’re familiar with. She started noticing that her bluebirds had stiff swollen toes and feet. She got feedback from a Me Lovelett “that pointed out that suet dough mixes are very low in calcium, high in phosphorus, and “contain proteins that are relatively low in biological value.”
Ms. Lovelett suggested basing suet dough on a “formulated diet that provides adequate calcium, high quality proteins and other essential nutrients.” And she mentions unmedicated chick starter as a base.”Here’s the link.http://juliezickefoose.blogspot.com/2010/03/zick-dough-improved.html?m=1
Tammy
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