Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 19:33:47 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "George M. Jett" Subject: Re: Platform feeder thief MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Folks I have a couple deer that, when they can get away with it, steal the black-oiled sunflower seed from a platform feeder. The feeder is about two feet off the ground. It will be raised first chance I get. When the deer grow wings, it will be OK. George ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Heffernan" To: Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 8:51 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Platform feeder thief > My feeder setup has a 2' x 2' tray feeder mounted about 5' up a pole > just above a cylindrical squirrel baffle. On several occasions, the > morning after I > have loaded up the tray, I have found it nearly empty. I thought all along > that my thief was a racoon but last evening around dusk the real thief showed up. > A buck white tailed deer came in, got up on its hind legs and licked > the seeds right off the tray. He proceeded to chow down for about 10 > minutes. It > was real interesting to watch. > > Has anyone else seen behavior like this? > > > Kevin Heffernan > Ellicott City > kjheff@aol.com > > ====================================================================== > = > 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================