The Home Improvement Thread

[ghost]

What kind of premium bird seed are you feeding them? A $20 bag of black oil sunflower seeds and some thistle usually lasts me 2-3 months.

[B]

When we moved into our new place, one of the first things I did was hey a couple of bird feeders: an old school wooden bird house for finches and things like that, and a hummingbird feeder. The bird house takes both bird seed, plus there are racks on either side of the unit to house these suet-fruit-nut bricks that attract different types of birds; then you use nectar for the hummingbirds.

I figured I’d be looking at like $15/mo in bird food, but I was WAY off. Fuckers are voracious, so I’m looking at like $20/week!

I wonder if birds will eat Cheerios?

My birds ate food at a voracious pace, so I bought cheap, shitty stuff, now they don't eat it at all.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Do you have squirrels eating it too and you aren't seeing them? We use birdseed with hot pepper seeds in. The birds like it but there squirrels don't. We usually have to refill the feeder every two weeks.

Also, when I joined this board 14 years ago, I never thought I'd be sharing bird seed practices

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[ghost]

Hmm, this might be good advice. I’ll look into it at the bird store.

American Eagle?

[Bammer]

Not a single seed has been eaten from our feeder. We put it out like 5 months ago.

[B]

Do you have squirrels eating it too and you aren't seeing them? We use birdseed with hot pepper seeds in. The birds like it but there squirrels don't. We usually have to refill the feeder every two weeks.

Also, when I joined this board 14 years ago, I never thought I'd be sharing bird seed practices

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[B]

Yeah. Birds pay it no mind, and squirrels stay the fuck away.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[E.H. Ruddock]

We use something like this

[B]

We use something like this

Yeah, that's the stuff that I couldn't afford to keep in stock.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Ours has been claimed by some local cardinals. They chase away the smaller birds, so it doesn't go fast because they are the only ones eating it now. Even though there is a bluebird nest like 10 feet from it. I might start scaring the cardinals away.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[ghost]

I love my cardinals. Without them we would only have chickadees and house finches.

[Strat]

Im not sure what has happened, but twice now, chaos has been the scene of our hummingbird feeder.

When we came back from our first Covid trip, the bird feeder was empty and laying on top of the grill right side up. The second time we came home from a Rona Trip, the hummingbird feeder was completely empty and the deck is covered in sticky sugar water.

I know those things are vicious and super territorial but i can only assume some sort of hummingbird orgy or massacre when we leave.

[Strat]

Do you have squirrels eating it too and you aren't seeing them? We use birdseed with hot pepper seeds in. The birds like it but there squirrels don't. We usually have to refill the feeder every two weeks.

Also, when I joined this board 14 years ago, I never thought I'd be sharing bird seed practices

lol and we hate pearl jam for dad rock

[CopperTom]

Im not sure what has happened, but twice now, chaos has been the scene of our hummingbird feeder.

When we came back from our first Covid trip, the bird feeder was empty and laying on top of the grill right side up. The second time we came home from a Rona Trip, the hummingbird feeder was completely empty and the deck is covered in sticky sugar water.

I know those things are vicious and super territorial but i can only assume some sort of hummingbird orgy or massacre when we leave.

Sounds like a bear took it down

[Strat]

Im not sure what has happened, but twice now, chaos has been the scene of our hummingbird feeder.

When we came back from our first Covid trip, the bird feeder was empty and laying on top of the grill right side up. The second time we came home from a Rona Trip, the hummingbird feeder was completely empty and the deck is covered in sticky sugar water.

I know those things are vicious and super territorial but i can only assume some sort of hummingbird orgy or massacre when we leave.

Sounds like a bear took it down

While we definitely have bears, i would be shocked if a bear made it into our fenced back yard