Date: 10/26/24 12:06 pm From: Daniel Mason <millipede1977...> Subject: acorns
Last year, and again this year, my son puts acorns in a shallow cardboard box on top of our window AC. I don't want them there this year. Fun fact about it... the titmice are the first birds to see at them, and the ones we see taking them the most. I don't know if it's any acorns, or just particular ones. We have a feeder with sunflower seeds just a few feet away, and those titmice come in for the acorns. I plan to raid a friend's yard for acorns to put out here, and I'm curious what would work well besides just putting them in a box. I could make a small cage out of 1/2" hardware cloth(metal, not cloth). And then just hang it. I'm looking online for options as well. Those wreath style peanut feeders, do the birds pull the whole nut through the side? Looks like a slinky, almost... or do they just peck at them and eat through the wire? Peanut shells are soft and easy for a bird to just sit there and break them to get the nuts. Acorns, however, are tougher, and I wonder if they'd be able to eat them well through such a feeder. Also considering setting something up for my mother in Massachusetts. She has fairly large acorns in her yard. Not as HUGE as some I've seen around here, but bigger than many of the smaller ones we have here. She hates the acorns... but, she loves birds, so I'm wondering if I could set something up in the back corner of her yard where she could purposely place acorns and hope the birds eat them before they start growing new oak trees on her. HA.
