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Attracting Nuthatches
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georgia_kate (
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Thu, Aug 12, 10 at 14:15
| My bird book says that Brown Headed N. are year round residents in my region, and White-Breasted N. are semi-common year round, but I have yet to see a single one! I have up 3 seed feeders and one suet, and live right on the woods near a good sized creek. Are there any special tricks to attract these cute little birds? |
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RE: Attracting Nuthatches
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| i get the white breasted nuthatches here during the winter and early spring. They like the woodpecker bars and the suet with nuts or sunflower seeds. ocasionally see one on a pan that i put nuts and sunflower seeds in for the chickadees. they go to the mountains late spring and don't return till late fall. |
RE: Attracting Nuthatches
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| does it matter at all if the suet is storebought or homemade? |
RE: Attracting Nuthatches
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i make my own from scratch and all the hanging birds like woodpeckers and nuthatches and chickadees and tits love nuts and raisens and sunflowers seeds and pick them out of the suet or molded blocks. In the cold months i make homemade suet with lard or shortning and put peanuts or peanut butter in it. add raisen and mixed bird seed and cornmeal or rolled oats to thicken it, i mold it into either plastic bottoms of the little boxes raspberry or blackberrys come in from the store and put the trays into the suet cages and hang them. But in warm weather i use either molasses or sorgum and peanuts or peanut butter and whatever nuts or sunflower seeds or raisens or mixed seeds
and cornmeal or rolled oats to make a thick sticky paste
and press it into the woodpecker block cages or the suet cages. |
RE: suet or molasses mix
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| several friends of mine say they mix a little powdered gelaten in warm water and mix it in the suet or summer blocks and let it set up before they put it out and it helps hold the mix together better |
RE: Attracting Nuthatches
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| They love the nyjer seed that I have for the goldfinches. I also see them at the BOSS feeder during the winter. |
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