EXTREME BIRD FEEDER
with the arrow in the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. Press the
escape key to get out of full-screen format on this screen
or reclick the full screen key.
Backyard Bird feeder
This view is looking at the Bird feeder located at
Lake Cumberland, Burnside-Somerset, Kentucky.
Wild Turkeys-Deer-Flying Squirrels-Bobcats-Raccons
After installing the ExView NightVision Camera the first night we was looking at a masked bandit. The raccoon was after the bird seeds. This soon became the new routine feed the birds all day, then the flying Squirrels glide in at dusk for a nightly snack. The raccons doing what raccons do wrecking havoc on the feeder.
Interesting Brown Thrasher Facts
The brown thrasher A large, skulking bird of the thickets, is known to be one of the best and most spectacular singers with the largest repertoire of songs of all North American birds. It is also a very hidden bird so the chance of people actually spotting the bird is smaller than that of hearing the bird sing. Some brown thrashers are very good mimics and even sing songs of other species of birds as part of their own songs.
They have a dislike for any snake and will attack them.
The Brown Thrasher is a aggressive bird and is known to strike people and dogs hard enough to draw blood.
Mourning Dove
The Mourning Doves Coo may sound sad, but bird watchers know it signals the beginning of this birds habits of nesting, claiming territory, and raising young. Slimmer than pigeons and about 12 inches in length. Mourning Doves have a soft gray-brown body and a gray patch on the head. Black dots on their wings and a single black spot behind and below the eyes. A long tapered white-edged tail that is conspicuous in flight. They are Common at my bird feeder. Cracked corn works well and is an inexpensive bird seed.
You can get more and different kinds of birds to visit your feeders. To maximize the number of species that visit your feeders, you'll want to offer a mix variety of food. You will need a platform to set your feeder on. (see mine)
Most birds that stay in cold regions in winter eat seeds. They have to. Insects are hard to find in freezing weather. So in winter, offer seeds to the wild birds. The doves or love birds will stay with you the year around if you give them the mix birdfeed, they will not eat the sun flower seeds but most of the other birds love them.. This only works if you build a platform for them to stand around on..
Birds love suet mixed with birdseed. It's the solid fat rendered from meats. It provides concentrated energy to help birds make it through freezing winter days and nights.
Suet is the way to attract woodpeckers to your feeding operation. Make a wired cage or better yet you can buy them where they sell the food.. (see the wire suet cages on my feeder)
To keep Racoons off the feeder I grease the pole with axle grease and its works till the next year.. Keep you platform around six feet high..
I took my old 2-foot-diameter Direct TV satellite dish and maded a birdbath.
I attached the Direct TV dish to the top of a 4x4" post using the existing hardware with four woodscrews, an instant birdbath! I can fill it with water or let the rain and snow do the job for me. The birds appreciate the shallow pool year around.. The trick was getting it in postion that my fixed webcam could see it and the feeder at the same time.. Its about ten feet away, any closer and it would catch a lot of birdfeed and require cleaning..
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