Short-sighted WP: Re: [NatureNS] Aggressive Hummingbird

From: David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com>
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Roughly 6'; fingertip to fingertip with arms spread. It is a handy measure 
for many purposes.
Dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Annabelle Thiebaux" <hamst@xplornet.com>
To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2013 8:21 AM
Subject: Re: Short-sighted WP: Re: [NatureNS] Aggressive Hummingbird


> 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
>>
>>
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