common_nature | No More Suet

We had a disappointing experiment with suet this year. The sparrows and finches were interested largely if the seed plate was low, and they seemed to make little progress with it. However the starlings definitely liked it. A bunch of them came in for a few days, and they ended up attacking it so often it got dragged off the food plate -- and eventually off the side of the balcony.

I imagine if they no longer found it there that the local squirrels would, but although we've seen the occasional Blue Jays and Cardinals, for the most part we have only the finches and sparrows coming to eat. This past week though we've been seeing some mourning doves and I suspect that as nests get started that we'll see them more often.

Sidenote: In the bottom photo I was amused by the birdies who seem to realize they're on camera.