[Mnbird] Yellow Rumped (Myrtle) Warblers on Suet

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We were at our MN farm in Grant County last month and had one Myrtle warbler that ruled the suet. I've wondered if it was the same one that showed up at our FL home in January and scared off orange crowned and yellow throated warblers that had been residents for several years. Myrtles seem to not just enjoy suet but will be territorial about it too. 
Charlene Nelson 
Still in sunny Citrus County FL 

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On May 2, 2017, at 2:15 PM, Pamela Freeman via Mnbird <mnbird at lists.mnbird.net> wrote:

They come to my meal worms. Unfortunately, the RWBBs dominate the suet right now, there is little getting to it while they amass on around and below it.
They decimate it faster than the piliated does.

But the yellow rumps AND the palm both like the meal worms. Funny though, there is a black and white, just one, so far, that I have seen with this swarm of warblers, and it doesn't seem interested in the worms.
Anyone else notice this as well?
We had a palm warbler a few years ago set up his territory around our meal worm feeder, he would fend any others away from it for a couple weeks until he apparently tired of being the sole palm warbler and left in search of a mate elsewhere, we guessed. But he sure defended it enthusiastically. Stayed near it at all times, within a couple feet or so. It was fun to watch, though sad too, since we knew that it was not probably that a female was going to join him here in Anoka country, in Oak Grove.
But he sure was diligent. I hope he was rewarded elsewhere.



- Pamela 
Never give up on a dream just because of the length of time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. - Unknown

“There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.” 
― Aldo Leopold
I am one who cannot.

> On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 11:27 AM, Mary Norman via Mnbird <mnbird at lists.mnbird.net> wrote:
> I am also feeding these warblers on suet, and mealworms!  Last year I noticed a migrating yellow rump eating bits of suet that dropped from my suet feeder.  This year I made an effort to cut suet into small pieces and put them on the ground under the feeder, and also have them on a hanging feeder.  They use both!   And eat the dried meal worms!  I must have 8 or 10 and it is so much fun to watch them flit around!
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> Mary Norman
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> > On May 2, 2017, at 7:19 AM, Philip Frazier via Mnbird <mnbird at lists.mnbird.net> wrote:
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> > Just south of Rogers, Mn near Crow Hassan Park I have had a flock of 10 - 12 Myrtle Warblers feeding daily on suet (pure beef suet from Byerly's) for the past 5 days. I assume it is the same flock, though possibly some are passing through. I have Pileated, and all the other smaller Woodpeckers, (Downy, Hairy, Red Bellied, Flickers) feeding regularly at the same suet along with Chickadees, Nuthatches, Bluejays, Starlings feeding at the same feeder. The Warblers are on the ground under three Black Oiler Sunflower feeders, but focus on the suet feeder. This is unusual behavior to me. Anyone else experience warblers on suet before?
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