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jmcquown wrote:
> On 5/15/2021 1:59 PM, Sheldon Martin wrote:
>> On Sat, 15 May 2021 09:46:13 -0700 (PDT), dsi1
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 5/15/2021 7:04 AM, Sheldon Martin wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 14 May 2021 18:31:25 -0400, jmcquown
>>>>> >
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 5/14/2021 12:17 PM, Sheldon Martin wrote:
>>>>>>> Tractor Supply Stores have a sale on Bird Feeding Stuffs...
>>>>>>> got 2 bird
>>>>>>> seed feeders and seed, 2 hummingbird nector feeders and
>>>>>>> nector. I can
>>>>>>> spend hours there looking.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'd rather spend those hours looking at the *birds*.
>>>>>
>>>>> I do both. Winters here are long and hard so I stock up on
>>>>> seed at
>>>>> sale time. > I used to make nector but it's cheap enough to
>>>>> buy it
>>>>> ready made, and the brand I buy already contains the minerals and
>>>>> vitamins for proper egg shell formation.
>>>>>
>>>> Hummingbirds get nutrition from many other sources. They eat a
>>>> lot of
>>>> small insects.
>>>>>> During warm months I don't offer seed or suet; there are
>>>>>> plenty of
>>>>>> sources of food once the weather warms up. What keeps them
>>>>>> coming
>>>>>> around at all times of the year is the bird bath which is
>>>>>> always filled
>>>>>> with fresh water. I love watching them splish-splash around
>>>>>> in the bath.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It doesn't (often) get cold enough for the water to freeze in
>>>>>> the bath
>>>>>> where I live now but it did in west TN. I have a small heater
>>>>>> for the
>>>>>> bath I used then.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jill
>>>>>
>>>>> I use one of those plastic snow coasters as a bird bath, a small
>>>>> heater is added during winter. During warm weather the birds
>>>>> prefer
>>>>> the many ponds here, they especially like the shallow vernal
>>>>> ponds.
>>>>>
>>>> Yes, you have fresh water ponds. I live on one of a string of sea
>>>> islands surrounded by salt marshes. Even the tidal creeks are
>>>> mostly
>>>> salt water. Yes, birds always find sources of fresh water but
>>>> it's the
>>>> the bird bath that keeps them coming to my patio year round.
>>>>
>>>> No seed out at this time of year. Just this morning I've seen
>>>> tufted
>>>> titmice, a mated pair of cardinals, Carolina chickadees all
>>>> coming to
>>>> take a sip and a dip in the bird bath.
>>>
>>>
>>> Uh, why do you have to turn a pleasant avian conversation into a
>>> "contest".

>>

> (piggybacking, sorry Sheldon)
>
> I didn't turn anything into a contest, Mr. Hawaii.* We were
> discussing birds and habitats in our different regions and you
> decided to turn troll.* Go buy some more fried fish with cabbage
> buried underneath and don't dare eat the cabbage.
>
> Jill


Popeye was involved. That means it would have turned into a
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