On the recommendation of my pal, Braumeister, at the start of last month I hung
the contraption you see below from a branch on a red maple in our yard.
It is a bird feeder that you fill with peanuts. Peanuts in the shell;
raw and unsalted.
I bought a big bag of nuts at a local bird food joint. And while
they're clearly labeled: NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION I suppose if I tried
one I don't think it would kill me. But you never know.
It took a few days for the local birds to figure-out what it's for and
now I'm restocking it almost twice a week.
In any event the trail camera I installed to monitor who might like peanuts needed to be rearranged. It needed to have its back to the sun so that subjects were appropriately lit. It took a couple of tries to get the focal length correct. Trim some branches and there was the opportunity cost of losing several days of potential photos as a consequence of an improperly-formatted SD card. Mind you, the camera is old too. Originally-deployed during COVID in 2020 it is quite frail and could fail catastrophically just about any time. Nevertheless, being the cheap SOB that I am I intend to squeeze every last gigabyte of digital imagery out of this old Moultrie device as I can.
So, here's an update
Yours-truly wrangling and wrassling the gizmo one of countless times to get it situated
Blue jay
White-breasted nuthatch
Red-breasted nuthatch
Pileated woodpecker
Downy woodpecker
Black-capped chickadee
And a hairy woodpecker
Altogether a nice collection of some of the year-round bird residents. The migrators are beginning to arrive so it will be interesting to note if any of them like peanuts.
Stay-tuned....
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