In the winter we load pinecones with chunky peanut butter to give the feathery ones a litle extra nutrition during the snow season. It's loaded with fat and protein so hopefully will allow them to maintain good body condition while natural food is hard to locate. If you've been following the "view from my deck 365" recently you will know exactly what I'm talking about. The two fat feeders, peanut butter pine cones and sunflower seed bell seem to have worked as the chickadees and others (who embarrassingly I do not know having grown up with another continent's domestic birdlife) are flocking around the deck once more. We hang our feeders every winter, filled with good, nourishing treats as advised by our local wild bird shop and are rewarded year round with some excellent visitors. Apart from the chickadees I have seen woodpeckers, robins, twohees and some cute speckled things(either siskins or a finch!). In the summer we also see Anna's humming birds though I'm still trying to work out a feeder regime for them. Our beautiful blown glass feeder is useless cos when full, the spout falls out spilling sugar solution all over the deck. The cat is totally entranced. The food scarcity is making the birds very bold (not that she has any chance of getting to them).
So what about the tale of two etc etc.? Well one ecommerce site hung out its feeders good and early, so the sellers there are in great body condition. The other, well they're just handing out pretty crappy peanuts sporadically as usual, the feeding table is still full but satisfaction levels are low.
Which feeding table will the birds be flocking round next winter?
Sunday, January 11, 2009
peanuts or a tale of two ecommerce sites
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he he... the comparison is cute. We move to a more rural township in the summer - 15k people instead of Calgary's million - and in the yard there I've seen wild canaries, all sorts of other finches in crazy colours, several types of hummers, woodpeckers, a cardinal.. and of course the predator birds that go with them: several owls and other small hunting birds.
My daughter is already picking out birdfeeders.
I set up on Artfire properly this weekend and I'm happily using the Etsy data to help with that (all those pics, descriptions... useful there).
Hopefully Artfire's bugs diminish faster than Etsy's and I have ALWAYS felt sorry for folks who were not tech savvy coming into Etsy. Etsy is simple to set up on but it is deceptive - the gap between setup and doing well is insane.
eeek! predators
we have a few bald eagles (ok lots of them cos we live 'in' the forest)(yes, bears too) and ravens. i haven't seen any clue in on the feeders yet - maybe a chickadee is too small to bother with. i guess i'm more worried about the cat (who is hefty and would provide a good meal) or maybe the guinea pigs if i let them out on the deck in the summer
PS: other readers, go click on elaine's blog - there are some gorgeous polymer clay beads and canes there!
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