pstraughan
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I'm lucky enough to have had a Treecreeper in my garden fairly regularly since the Autumn (maybe it was there in the Summer but hidden by leaves).
It usually frequents one of about half a dozen old trees - a fairly typical habitat. I have various feeders on some of the trees and the Treecreeper seems to be happy close to the feeding birds but never approaches the feeders - until today. It did its usual spiral up the trunk of a pear tree and then moved on to a fatball. I don't know if it ate anything but it certainly had a good probe and peck.
Treecreepers are one of the two birds that visit my garden that have never shown an interest in feeders. The other is the Green Woodpecker. Of course both are primarily insect eaters. Anyone else seen either of these two species eating seed, nuts, fatballs etc.?
Regards
Pat
It usually frequents one of about half a dozen old trees - a fairly typical habitat. I have various feeders on some of the trees and the Treecreeper seems to be happy close to the feeding birds but never approaches the feeders - until today. It did its usual spiral up the trunk of a pear tree and then moved on to a fatball. I don't know if it ate anything but it certainly had a good probe and peck.
Treecreepers are one of the two birds that visit my garden that have never shown an interest in feeders. The other is the Green Woodpecker. Of course both are primarily insect eaters. Anyone else seen either of these two species eating seed, nuts, fatballs etc.?
Regards
Pat