Project Feeder Watch

[Blaithin]

I keep bird feed out all winter also but they are a hungry lot and the costs do add up.

Peanuts and sunflowers for the Blue Jays. Canola and assorted mixed seeds for the Chickadees and the Red Poles. Always lots of Chickadees and some years lots of Red Poles and other years not so many

I do it just to have just a bit of colorful life around here during the cold dark bleak winter.

It is ridiculous the price of some seeds! If only wheat brought those prices 😂

Usually in the summer I stick with canola for the Gold Finches. I did splurge on some Nyjer seed this time around to see what I can catch though. I do mix lots of stuff up with random grains. The Blue Jay looks like it might be taking some peas and some days wheat seems a popular choice.

Instead of splurging on suet cakes I’m planning a trip to Olds College to pick some chunks up there to put out. That way I can steal some out of the freezer for myself!

[Blaithin]

Thanks for starting a thread that doesn't involve foreign elections, or Chinese viruses.
But be prepared for posters who never post about commodity marketing to chastise you for the off topic post.

Had a couple of owls helping combine the last few days. A really big one, and a smaller one. Does that count?

Yes owls count. Lots of people in the watch thing have a variety of hawks as well because the hawks are cherry picking the birds at the feeders.

A few years ago I had an owl that was eating a pheasant in the front yard.

[Blaithin]

Like this
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Second photo looks about right.

[sumdumguy]

[QUOTE=Blaithin;473315]It is ridiculous the price of some seeds! If only wheat brought those prices 😂

Usually in the summer I stick with canola for the Gold Finches. I did splurge on some Nyjer seed this time around to see what I can catch though. I do mix lots of stuff up with random grains. The Blue Jay looks like it might be taking some peas and some days wheat seems a popular choice.

Instead of splurging on suet cakes I’m planning a trip to Olds College to pick some chunks up there to put out. That way I can steal some out of the freezer for myself![/QUO


You can have 4 leghorn roosters and one lonely guinea hen if you can catch them. Its not easy because they roost in the rafters of the horse shed.

In May every year Johnstone’s Auction in Moose Jaw has an exotic animal sale (around May 5). Its a fun day to take kids to see all the crated animals, not really exotic, but pretty interesting. If you take kids, be prepared for lots of begging. 😁 We’ve bought coloured chicken eggs to stock the incubator. Hatching and brooding in the house have become popular at our place while we wait for real spring to arrive. Problem is they tend to stay around the farm until they let their guard down and the foxes get them.

[seldomseen]

This bad boy would be on the deck every morning for a week a couple falls ago. I like having owls around.

[helmsdale]

Father in Law had a brood of owl's around. Everyone thought they were adorable when they were real little, but then they grow up... and the like chickens... 4 hungry growing owls can really kick the shit out of your chicken numbers!

[wmoebis]

It is ridiculous the price of some seeds! If only wheat brought those prices 😂

Usually in the summer I stick with canola for the Gold Finches. I did splurge on some Nyjer seed this time around to see what I can catch though. I do mix lots of stuff up with random grains. The Blue Jay looks like it might be taking some peas and some days wheat seems a popular choice.

Instead of splurging on suet cakes I’m planning a trip to Olds College to pick some chunks up there to put out. That way I can steal some out of the freezer for myself!

Why does the college have suet cakes? Going for coffee when your in Olds? I'll buy!

[Blaithin]

Why does the college have suet cakes? Going for coffee when your in Olds? I'll buy!

They don’t have suet cakes, just suet. And lard. The meat shop is quite handy to get specialized things from. Even if they don’t usually stock it, if you ask usually they’ll keep what you want back when they’re butchering.

Can either make my own suet cakes or just give them a block of fat to eat. Not like they really need the seeds in the fat, there’s seeds in the feeders.

We’ll see what day I get in there! I’m hibernating now because of the snow and roads.

[farmaholic]

Then I got some chickens...
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That's one ugly côckerel, but that black chick is intriguing.

[Guest]

That's one ugly côckerel, but that black chick is intriguing.

oh my goodness !