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I only feed whole sunflower seeds in the shell on a porch feeder. They can't really eat them, so they sit at the porch literally all day and throw seeds on the ground and crap everywhere, chasing away the dozen or so bird species that used to visit away. After a week and a half of removing the feeder and cleaning the area, they haven't left.
Posted by u/overdoing_it - 1 vote and no comments
Fast forward to a few months ago, I noticed a couple of floofy pine siskins acting pretty lethargic with half closed eyes. At this point I’m regularly cleaning my feeders every couple of weeks. But after noticing the sick birds I sanitized them with bleach and left them down for another few weeks. Ive taken my feeders down a couple of times ...
In Minnesota, I saw 2 pine siskins at my feeder today. They looked healthy, not puffy, eyes looked normal. But they did let me get closer to them than any other birds. I was able to walk under the tree they were in without them moving, and stand about 3 feet from them at the feeder (they did eventually fly off). Is that normal?
I've cleaned feeders, pine siskins still coming in large numbers and dying, so the feeders and baths are gone now. Heard through the grapevine one person had 16 pine siskins die last week. At first I thought it was an after effect of the cold snap-but after a little research found out about the sickness.
Posted by u/overdoing_it - 1 vote and no comments
It will keep the seed nicer and help the birds visually identify it. Yes, it is not unheard of for pine siskens to prefer sunflower seed, but ultimately these birds are wild animals and even the most knowledgeable birder on earth cannot make any guarantees about which birds will eat what, so some experimentation is necessary. 3. Reply.
Posted by u/tambrico - 83 votes and 11 comments
Posted by u/No-Rabbit-9119 - 2 votes and 2 comments
Apr 6, 2008. #3. I used to live in Portland, Oregon. We'd get flocks of about 20-30 Pine Siskins in our back yard in the fall. In winter and spring they would be regularly present in groups up to 10. They typically left around the beginning of April even though the bird maps showed them as a year round resident.