Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 21:14:24 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Mike Callahan Subject: Re: Update on Pileated MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Janet, Have you considered using the no melt dough suets in the summer to keep your friend around. I have heard that birds consume more suet in the summer than winter because they are feeding young. Maybe he will come back with his young. Naturally, Mike Callahan On Mon, 1 May 2000 18:12:43 -0400 Janet Millenson writes: > Well, my "tame" Pileated is still hanging around, and whenever I see > him at > the suet feeder I go outside, walk right up to him, and chat. (I've > got some > photos now, too.) I've even taken my 8-year-old son with me up close > to the > bird, and Mr. P is very mellow about it. He usually gives a very > soft little > chuckly noise when he's finished at the feeder and is about to > leave. > > Interestingly, a second male Pileated has shown up recently. He > looks > younger -- feathers neat and black, not worn and rusty brown; crest > very > perky and bright red -- and he holds on directly to the suet feeder > instead > of craning his neck from the tree trunk like the other bird does. > The new > one, needless to say, flies away immediately if I so much as come to > the > window near the feeder. > > I wonder how much longer my friendly guy will keep visiting, and > whether > I'll see him again next winter? Although I've had Pileateds in my > yard in > the summer on occasion, I don't put out suet when the weather gets > hot. > > Janet Millenson > Potomac, MD > janet@twocrows.com > > --------------------------------------------------- > "Look at the birds!" -- Pascal the parrot > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to > listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================