Log-rolling Squirrels: BirdSpotter Information Entry Winner

| Gwen Coleman’s Feeder Set-up |
For the third season in a row, Cornell Lab and our sponsor Wild Birds Limitless are rewarding registered FeederWatchers with BirdSpotter prizes. After getting into fowl counts (aka knowledge) into the FeederWatch web site, members have the chance to share a narrative, reminiscence, or tip. Our second Information Entry contest immediate was:
What has helped you to change into a greater FeederWatcher? Do you’ve recommendation for folks trying to get higher at attracting, figuring out, or counting birds?
Congratulations to our randomly chosen winner, Gwen Coleman! Gwen says that utilizing a particular anti-squirrel set-up and retaining separate feeder areas in line with what totally different species eat has helped her in watching and counting the birds. Gwen writes:
I’ve an enormous flat space the place I throw numerous peanuts in shells and crackers and corn, which is the place all of the Blue Jays, crows, and lots of the squirrels watch for me each morning. As soon as the massive corvids are distracted, I […] put down all the bottom seed for the doves, juncos, and different, smaller floor feeders. I’ve a completely squirrel-proof contraption that retains the squirrels off all my hanging feeders; it’s a sequence of 1-liter soda bottles strung finish to finish, about 25 of them, between a tree and the home. Then, I dangle the feeders on the wire working by the bottles, so all of the birds who eat on the feeders can eat freed from squirrel harassment. Any squirrel who tries to climb out over the bottles is straight away spun off. They gave up making an attempt years in the past. I’ve two platform feeders the place all people will get to strive their luck on the morning’s allotment of shelled peanuts. For sure, I spend a small fortune on fowl seed and peanuts, however we don’t drink or exit a lot, so that is our leisure price range. It’s value it to us.
You may create separate “feeder teams” in your rely website too. Check out our Frequent Feeder Birds device to type out which birds come to every kind of feeder, and people who eat every sort of meals. For extra ideas, together with further squirrel deterrent methods, take a look at our Feeding Birds web page.
Due to everybody who participated and shared their tales! Individuals can nonetheless submit their story to our newest immediate. Enter to win on the Rely Abstract web page that seems after you submit your subsequent FeederWatch rely on-line at FeederWatch.org. Involved in changing into a FeederWatcher? Be a part of the enjoyable and you can win nice prizes!

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