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    Bird with powder blue belly brown wings and head in CNY feeder today 04_24_24.

    I'm a very inexperienced bird watcher. Today I saw something at my feeder that really caught my attention. My security camera isn't working, and I feared that if I left the window to get my cellphone it would be gone before I retrieved it. So unfortunately, I have no pictures. The bird was...
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    Polite bluejays mad at me because I yelled at the squirrels.

    I really like the bluejays in the neighborhood. They stand patiently on my deck, waiting for the smaller birds to vacate the feeder, before going to it. I wanted to reward that behavior, so I bought a 20 lb. bag of unshelled, unsalted peanuts and started laying them on the deck railing...
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    How can I keep feeder visitors safe from hawks and owls?

    My home has very few vantage points to view feeders, and I have vision problems that can't be corrected. So I have a shepherds hook mounted on a bracket from my back deck, about 7 feet from the kitchen window. I either hang a suet cage from it, or a hopper feeder. If it weren't so close I'd...
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    How do I get the birds to find a newly placed feeder

    I have poor eyesight and only a couple windows which can be used to observe a bird feeder. And as selfish as it may seem, I don't want to feed my bird friends unless I can enjoy seeing them. Three days ago I suspended a tube feeder with small feeding ports from a hook at the ceiling of the...
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    New feeder care and treatment

    Followup question. Hope it is not too "off topic". The old hopper feeder I am using is unfinished redwood. A bit concerned that it will get damaged by the rain and sun. Would an application of polyurethane to the roof, body, and perches drive away the birds? (I don't know if they would...
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    Hello to all. Thank you in advance for any help you offer.

    Hi!. I'm looking for some advice, and perhaps some new friends. I inherited my mother's house in 2018 - perhaps because I took care of her for years (in the same house). First place I've ever owned. My mother didn't believe in feeding birds. She stopped doing it decades ago after she read...
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