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SimonDoom said:
I need a rat guard for my bird feeder. Damn critters crawl down the wire and eat the seeds at night.
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This is the best solution I've found to protect a feeder from assault from above. It swivels freely on a ball-and-socket-type joint, so when the creatures try to crawl out to get around it, it just dumps them off (if you buy one without that free swivel, they'll probably figure s way around it). The feeder I use with it looks something like this. It's important that the upper plastic dish be of considerably larger diameter than the feeder, so they can't grab it when they fall.
 
Birdwatcher, one half-step removed. I have become a Northern Flicker chaser. There is a very dedicated trio (I counted) intent on drilling holes in my house. No, there are no bugs in the wood and it’s emphatically not mating season, so the noise of them working on aluminum flashing cannot be chalked up to that, either. Beautiful, elegant birds, but damnation!
 
TarnishedPenny said:
Birdwatcher, one half-step removed. I have become a Northern Flicker chaser. There is a very dedicated trio (I counted) intent on drilling holes in my house. No, there are no bugs in the wood and it’s emphatically not mating season, so the noise of them working on aluminum flashing cannot be chalked up to that, either. Beautiful, elegant birds, but damnation!
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I don't know about flickers, but my stepfather used to buy slabs of beef fat from the market and hang them in nets from the trees to keep the pileated woodpeckers from banging on the house.
 
TarnishedPenny said:
Birdwatcher, one half-step removed. I have become a Northern Flicker chaser. There is a very dedicated trio (I counted) intent on drilling holes in my house. No, there are no bugs in the wood and it’s emphatically not mating season, so the noise of them working on aluminum flashing cannot be chalked up to that, either. Beautiful, elegant birds, but damnation!
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Are they actually making holes, or just making noise? I'm not familiar with this behavior in flickers, but in other woodpeckers that I have watched (primarily hairy woodpeckers, but occasionally downies, and on one memorable occasion, a pileated woodpecker on the side of a barn, in response to me hammering— Lord, what a racket!) I've become convinced that they just enjoy making noise (or maybe music, in their world).
 
Reposting from the Book Alphabet thread (everything's all connected):

Outwitting Squirrels: 101 Cunning Stratagems to Reduce Dramatically the Egregious Misappropriation of Seed from Your Birdfeeder by Squirrels - Bill Adler Jr.
 
liqueur said:
Are they actually making holes, or just making noise? I'm not familiar with this behavior in flickers, but in other woodpeckers that I have watched (primarily hairy woodpeckers, but occasionally downies, and on one memorable occasion, a pileated woodpecker on the side of a barn, in response to me hammering— Lord, what a racket!) I've become convinced that they just enjoy making noise (or maybe music, in their world).
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Imagine a lifetime of banging your nose into hard things.
 
liqueur said:
Are they actually making holes, or just making noise? I'm not familiar with this behavior in flickers, but in other woodpeckers that I have watched (primarily hairy woodpeckers, but occasionally downies, and on one memorable occasion, a pileated woodpecker on the side of a barn, in response to me hammering— Lord, what a racket!) I've become convinced that they just enjoy making noise (or maybe music, in their world).
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That’s a very good question. There’s no doubt that they go for grubs in rotten wood and they do make hollows for nests, but it isn’t nesting season and our wood is sound. In spring, they are supposed to knock as a mating or territorial display, but it’s October.

Crazy birds.
 
TarnishedPenny said:
That’s a very good question. There’s no doubt that they go for grubs in rotten wood and they do make hollows for nests, but it isn’t nesting season and our wood is sound. In spring, they are supposed to knock as a mating or territorial display, but it’s October.

Crazy birds.
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At this time of year woodpeckers will peck holes in trees to stash acorns. I've seen dead trees with hundreds of pecked holes stuffed full of accorns. So that's probably what's driving it.
 
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SimonDoom said:
At this time of year woodpeckers will peck holes in trees to stash acorns. I've seen dead trees with hundreds of pecked holes stuffed full of accorns. So that's probably what's driving it.
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Interesting. First time I’ve heard that, but I can see it. Not sure there are any oaks nearby, but who knows? Thanks
 
SimonDoom said:
At this time of year woodpeckers will peck holes in trees to stash acorns. I've seen dead trees with hundreds of pecked holes stuffed full of accorns. So that's probably what's driving it.
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Acorn woodpeckers are an utter bane if you have trypophobia.
 
Indigo_lr said:
Birder/photographer here.

Ohio

Waterfowl are my favorites especially Loons
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@Indigo_lr,
Good evening my dear colleague. In reference to Loons, is it true they call out, in unison, when someone dies? I read that in a horror novel once. (Please forgive my ignorance if not, we don't have Loons here as far as I'm aware)
Deepest respects,
D.
 
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