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<DIV><BR What is a span David? On 11/08/13 10:38 AM, David & Alison Webster wrote: > Hi Don & All, Aug 11, 2012 > Your comment about the Downy freezing at the hint of danger reminded me of an experience last winter suggesting that Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers are short-sighted. > > For many years I have hung a stick of firewood, with 16 staggered 3/4" diameter holes about 1/2" deep, horizontally in a shrub and kept them supplied with fat during cold weather. The Downy & Hairy WP often also fed in a nearby Ash and would usually come to the fat from the Ash. > > After Alison became confined to wheelchair she could not see the birds visit this stick so I decided to move it this winter to another location that was visible from a low window by hanging a second stick at the new location and withholding fat from the first. This second location was about 15 paces from the Ash home base and about 20 paces from the bush in which the old stick hung. > > To effect this move, to a stick at the second location that was in full view from the Ash, took about 6 weeks !! > > They would find fat in a post that was half a span from the feeder currently used but ignore a post that was a span away. So I leapfrogged posts by half-span increments; shifting the oldest forward after they were finding fat at the most recent. > > In the process of doing this I learned that they strongly prefer to feed on a vertical post as opposed to an angled post or a horizontal stick. > > Yt, Dave Webster, Kentville > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Don MacNeill > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Sent: Friday, August 09, 2013 1:26 PM > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Aggressive Hummingbitd > > > 4 parts water, 1 part sugar. Do you think I am making it hyperactive like children who get too much sugar? :>) > > Don > > > Don MacNeill donmacneill@bellaliant.net > On 09/08/2013 7:36 AM, Hebda, Andrew J wrote: > > Out of curiosity, how strong a sugar solution are you using? > > Andrew > > ________________________________________ > From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] on behalf of Don MacNeill [donmacneill@bellaliant.net] > Sent: August-09-13 6:38 AM > To: NaturenNS > Subject: [NatureNS] Aggressive Hummingbitd > > I bought and hung out a hummingbird feeder about a week ago. Yesterday a > hummingbird fed from it and decided to stake out its territory. It > chased away Black-capped Chickadees that were feeding at a sunflower > feeder that was 20 feet away fram the hummingbird feeder. It chased a > House Sparrow from my backyard. It dove at a Downy Woodpecker but > stopped about a foot from it and flew back to a bush. Interestingly, > the woodpecker froze as it normally does when danger threatens. It was > quite a while before the woodpecker resumed feeding at the peanut feeder. > > I hope the dog-in-the-manger hummingbird doesn't succeed in keeping the > whole yard for itself. > > Don > -- > Don MacNeill donmacneill@bellaliant.net > > > > > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2013.0.3392 / Virus Database: 3211/6563 - Release Date: 08/09/13 >
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