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First eastern towhee seen this year in the backyard yesterday (see pic above!)....
The Easter Towhee —a cool looking bird. As I’ve said before, most of the birds that frequent my feeders are “Earth Toned” with the exception of a rare Golden House Finch and various Blue Jays and Blue Birds.
Since living here, which has been a very long time, I’ve never seen Colorado’s state bird, the “Lark Bunting”. I suspect that Colorado's very wise legislators were trying to be unique at the time that a state bird became a necessity.
Only have two wires hanging with nuts on them, but it sure is keeping the sparrows away, but not keeping the cardinals and finches away.
Both wires/nuts are hanging in front of the bird feeder.
Last time I did it, I had a piece of OSB (2'x2') above the bird feeder, with wire/nuts hanging down from all four corners. No birds visited the feeder when I had it like that.
It's so simple, hard to believe it works. Keep us posted. If needed a short piece from the top side of feeder to hang about 6" below the feeder would probably work too. My line is closer to the feeder (on the shepherds hooks) or even on the feeder as I have no trees from which to hang the line.
01-10-2017, 06:21 AM
