The platform feeder was getting dominated by the Crows and Band-tailed pigeons to the point that they were eating all of the seed and scaring away the smaller birds. So I decided to replace the platform feeder with a new hopper feeder. It's small enough that the Crows and Band-tailed Pigeons can't eat from it, yet large enough for the Scrub Jays, Black-headed Grosbeaks and smaller birds.
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| Black-headed Grosbeak |
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| Black-headed Grosbeak |
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| Black-headed Grosbeak |
The Crows and Band-tailed Pigeons were also devouring the seed in the tube feeders. They would stand on the edge of the trays and eat all of the seed. So I removed the trays from the bottom of the tube feeders.
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| House Finch on Tube feeders with trays removed. |
The crows still try to eat from the tube feeders with out the trays, but it isn't so easy.
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| American Crow |
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| American Crow |
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| American Crow |
A crow is cawing it's displeasure with my changes.
