Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 12:47:16 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Fred Pierce Subject: Re: Catbird Question In-Reply-To: <4a.1cd8e048.2bf6ce09@aol.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit They're glued to the suet from May til early August. Then they disappear. They like fruit too - grapes in particular. What really makes them sit up and beg though are dried caterpillers. That's what I've enticed the one to hand-feed with. I only put a few out at a time so when there aren't any they are good at pointing out the deficiency. Like right now... gotta go. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Fred Pierce (DNRC)- fpierce@avialantic.com Mid-Atlantic Aviation on the Web - http://www.avialantic.com ** Mid Atlantic Air Museum WWII Weekend Airshow June 6-8 2003 - www.maam.org/maamwwii.html ** *** World Airshow News - www.worldairshownews.com ** --------------------------------------------------------------------- > -----Original Message----- > From: Maryland Birds & Birding [mailto:MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM]On > Behalf Of Marian Dodson > Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 7:28 PM > To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM > Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Catbird Question > > > In a message dated 05/15/2003 2:12:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > birdersforever@EROLS.COM writes: > > > I don't think that catbirds used to be yard birds like robins > and chipping > > sparrows, > > > > Has anyone else had catbirds eating suet? It started with one; then I saw > another trying to figure out how to get into the suet cage which is hung > under a squirrel baffle. Then there were three. Boy, they can > put a hurting > on a suet cake! > > Marian Dodson > Glen Burnie, MD > > ======================================================================= > 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================