[obol] Flicker eating seeds

[Tom Shreve]

For a number of years we have had flickers coming to our suet feeder in
Tigard and then going to the feeder we fill with sunflower chips.  In the
summer we had no suet but the flickers would come to our tube feeder of
sunflower chips.  They had such trouble perching on the tube feeder that I
took a piece of hardware cloth (with quarter inch holes) and wrapped around
the bottom of the feeder.  I held it in place by passing the bottom perch
through the hardware cloth.  I made it long enough for them to perch and
reach the bottom feeder port and have it as a support for their tails as
well.  They figured it out immediately and when they come to feed on our
(bug free) sunflower chips it is much less awkward.

Tom Shreve

Tasgenl at Comcast.net

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