Peanut Butter and...
Jan 30, 2012 11:00:05 #
Ok, I just read in Birds and Blooms that birds love peanut butter and that a good way to give it to them is to hang a pine cone with PB smeared all over it. So I did...
Now its been 30 minutes and not one bird has checked it out even though it's just 3 feet from the main feeder and they are all over that. Only thing that's happened so far is that I've ate 2 PB and jelly sandwiches for some reason!
Hopefully at some point I'll have a visitor and will get a pic of said visitor.
So what else do these birds like to eat? You have any pictures of them eating different stuff? I'd like to see...
Now its been 30 minutes and not one bird has checked it out even though it's just 3 feet from the main feeder and they are all over that. Only thing that's happened so far is that I've ate 2 PB and jelly sandwiches for some reason!
Hopefully at some point I'll have a visitor and will get a pic of said visitor.
So what else do these birds like to eat? You have any pictures of them eating different stuff? I'd like to see...
If the birds don't hurry up I'll be licking it off there myself
Jan 30, 2012 11:06:14 #
You obviously live in an area where there is a high level of peanut allergies among birds. Actually their accustomed to going to the feeder, but they'll find the peanut butter eventually... or maybe they want the jelly too.
Jan 30, 2012 13:10:56 #
Mabe they like Smuckers instead of Jiff, sorry.. I couldn't resist! I never heard birds like peanut butter. I know birds like unsalted peanuts, we feed the squirrels peanuts on the back deck and it really attracts the birds of all kinds, I may be wrong but seems to me they could choke on peanut butter.
Jan 30, 2012 14:22:44 #
cjkorb wrote:
Mabe they like Smuckers instead of Jiff, sorry.. I couldn't resist! I never heard birds like peanut butter. I know birds like unsalted peanuts, we feed the squirrels peanuts on the back deck and it really attracts the birds of all kinds, I may be wrong but seems to me they could choke on peanut butter.
No takers yet, but also, no dead birds. Yet.
Now before someone turns me in to homeland security for cruelty to animals, get out yer Birds And Blooms issue January 2011. Page 9, bottom right, just to the left of the apple picture. It says Peanut Butter there and states that the biggest fans is "too many to name". Now that sounds like every bird that comes in my yard.
I have an idea though. Maybe hanging it on a string where it would be best situated for photographic purposes wasn't the best of plans. Think I'll move it to a branch where I can fasten it down so it's not bobbing all over the place in the breeze. Right now though I have to go watch Happy Yipee Yehey. Google it...
Jan 30, 2012 14:53:19 #
emrob62 wrote:
You obviously live in an area where there is a high level of peanut allergies among birds. Actually their accustomed to going to the feeder, but they'll find the peanut butter eventually... or maybe they want the jelly too.
Burlars silence bad dogs by thowing a large blob of peanut butter over the fence. For whatever reason it stops the barking and biting, try it out one day and let me know if the rumor is true! Haha
Ian
Jan 30, 2012 15:49:23 #
Peanut butter works well.I was also putting out orange & apple slices. Had all kind of birds. I used to feed birds in the backyard until every blasted cat in the neighborhood decided my yard was a good hang out. Got a dog. Turned out he like birds too.
Jan 30, 2012 15:59:31 #
we usually put pb on the cone then roll it in seed...that way the seed sticks to the cone and they love it
wrr wrote:
Ok, I just read in Birds and Blooms that birds lov... (show quote)
Jan 30, 2012 19:05:52 #
Give them a few days to find it. They are always leery of strange objects. Swinging from the string shouldn't be a problem for them.
Jan 30, 2012 19:19:44 #
Country's Mama wrote:
Give them a few days to find it. They are always leery of strange objects. Swinging from the string shouldn't be a problem for them.
Ok thanks, I guess I thought they'd be right on it as soon as I got back in the house. Silly me.
Jan 31, 2012 09:45:59 #
wrr wrote:
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There isn't a place for them to land and eat it without getting their claws in the peanut butter - maybe that is the problem. Another trick, if you have a balcony rail, is to put a lid full of orange juice for them to drink. My uncle does this all the time and gets a lot of wood peckers that love it.
Jan 31, 2012 10:30:26 #
gonate
Loc: sacramento,calif
imntrt1 wrote:
quote=wrr Ok, I just read in Birds and Blooms tha... (show quote)
Try thinking like a bird, Would you want peanut butter on your beak, or crack a nice seed open.
gonate
Jan 31, 2012 11:05:24 #
Jan 31, 2012 19:00:10 #
I think you need to add seed to the peanut butter in this case. They do make different Peanut butter bird feeders.
Jan 31, 2012 19:28:11 #
Jan 31, 2012 19:48:48 #
cjkorb wrote:
Wrr...any luck with that peanut butter yet?
No, I'm pissed. I even shut the cats up in the garage all day and still not one taker. So I thought I'd better check out the peanut butter again but after two more PB&J sandwiches, I determined that the PB is just fine.
Tomorrow I'm going to do what a couple have said here, roll the thing in seed and see what happens then.
Also, I can't believe that Birds and Blooms would give me a bum steer but at this point not sure I'll be reading anymore of them.
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