On Sun, 16 May 2021 10:40:32 +0100, Ophelia >
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>On 15/05/2021 21:51, 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
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> Did you look at the address with Dsi1 ...
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