[Mnbird] Cardinal at Jelly Feeder

Norma May cornercotg at gmail.com
Sat Jul 13 11:14:33 CDT 2019


This was also a first for me, seeing a Cardinal sampling the jelly about a week ago!

Norma May
On my little pond in Chanhassen 


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> From: Pamela Freeman <gleskarider at gmail.com>
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> High summer and the birds have successfully, at least some of them, nested,
> hatched, and raised young.
> I know this because the number of birds at some of my feeders have
> increased greatly in number.
> Each year, the numbers of orioles increases, it seems they return from
> whence they were come from, so see, or so it seems we see,
> more each year.
> Certainly they are more easily perceived than some of the drabber birds
> that also have high numbers.
> The cat birds, for instance.
> We hear both cat bird song and orioles, both greater than almost any other,
> except perhaps the witchity withcity of the common yellow throat.
> And of course, a background chorus of all the others that one doesn't pick
> out, but are there, the gold finches, swamp sparrows, red winged black
> birds providing accent notes, rose breasted gross beaks a coloratura, and
> others, the chickadees, the blue jays...
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> The feeders.
> I only really have the jelly feeder and the meal worms going full now, as a
> young bear, cute, but destructive, has taken an interest in our suet and
> seed feeders which hung farther from the house.
> 
> The commotion around the jelly feeder is unceasing, from dawn to dusk,
> usually family groups now, interestingly, males, surrounded by offspring,
> all fluttering their wings in the avian version of "pick me pick me, me
> me!!"  vying for the attention of his beak-full of grape jelly. They all
> ring around him, perfectly capable of attaining their own jelly, but making
> him do the work, insuring that it really is food, I suppose.
> Not far from the jelly are my raspberries, slowly ripening. I don't dare
> hope that they will not notice them and keep their interest in the jelly.
> 
> The chickadees meanwhile have their own large broods, but they go for the
> meal worms. The whole family gets into the feeder at once in a, dare I say
> it, melee of meal worms.
> 
> The cat birds are opportune and will feed off of which ever is available at
> the time.
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> This year, we have observed a pair of cardinals eating the jelly, something
> that I have not observed before.
> And, a chipmunk, also.
> Grape jelly is apparently a universal food.
> 
> Pamela
> Good Birding
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