Hmm I live in East Alabama and never seen a house Sparrow and I live at this location going on 40 years. I have a lot of Chirping Sparrows but never seen a house sparrow or Starling for that matter. I guess I am blissed but not to much because I have cowbirds that like to camp out on my feeders and I can't do anything to them because there a protected bird.
I’ve used string, emptying the bird bath, taking away all seed except the Black Nyger seed which I read they don’t like. Nothing is keeping them away. They even went after the blac’ seed 🤷♀️
@stellabastoneintoronto955 thank you. I actually went out the same day and got some elastic string and binder clips and applied them to my caged suet double feeder, attaching binder clips to baffle. It was like kryptonite, they don't go to it anymore and literally look like a bunch of hummingbirds just floating next to it. Now my woodpeckers can enjoy their food unbothered. I used it to deter them from my suet feeder as I started noticing my suet going too fast even with baby birds about. I didn't realize how many sparrows were using my feeder until I put the string up. OMG, there were so many coming to the feeder trying to find out why they couldn't access it anymore. Thank you again. This simple and cheap yet so important modification saved me money and frustration.
We drilled small holes around the bottom of the guards' perimeters--8 of them spaced apart equally--and threaded the silver elastic thread through the holes and simply tied a knot to keep them in place. Good luck with your efforts to deter House Sparrows. :)
@@MunchkinMoD I have, but I had to add a wide wreath wire halo above the feeder and dangle the shiny string/wire from the halo -- it gets shifted around in the wind and looks a bit untidy. I have to look for a tidier solution :)
@Jim Gresham, we got the elastic string at a local dollar store. It's heavy enough to have no entanglement risk. You can google the words silver elastic string to see buying options. You could also use thin gauge wire, which is in fact the material most people use for this purpose. Fishing wire is definitely not the way to go as birds do get entangled in it. I hope you find some solutions for deterring House Sparrows in your area!
I see you propped open the perch port on the Unique Cardinal Feeder to allow other birds access to the safflower seed during the storm. Good thinking. The bird (? chickadee) poking it's head out of the nesting box is too cute.
It seems the perch simply sticks now! I didn't deliberately prop it open. Some of the squirrels took a liking to the safflower (despite our efforts to keep them well-fed with peanuts in shell) and were holding the perch plate open with one hand while grabbing seed inside. In their manipulations of the plate, they kept getting it in a stuck position. I kept popping it back into place by simply wiggling it a bit, making sure that metal thing was in the right place. I was thinking the squirrels would eventually break the feeder if I didn't make its contents unappealing, so I tossed the safflower in that hot pepper oil stuff sold specifically for bird seed. It seemed to do the trick -- the squirrels do leave the feeder alone now -- but the perch plate still sticks. This might be exacerbated by the hot oil; no idea. As soon as the the current seed batch is consumed, I'm going to bring the feeder inside and see if I can figure out what's going on with it. In the meantime, the squirrels have put on so much weight they seem to have lost some agility. If all else fails maybe I can mount the feeder on a 50-foot pole. The little Downy Woodpeckers are so very cute, I know! They roost in those nest boxes every night, one per box. I think there are 4 of them these days.☺
@@stellabastoneintoronto955 Excellent. And that's the feeder without the seed tray. I'm sure having that berry bush close by to launch from helped. Out of interest, does that feeder have the 1-1/2" or 2" perch ? Both the male and female look very comfortable and content feeding on it.
@@BryWorYT This has the 2" perch that you helped me figure out how to order. (Thank you.) Yes I agree the winterberry shrub probably helps. (And a lingering Robin has eaten most of the berries now.) I haven't seen the Cardinals at the other UCF with squirrel baffle overhead and the seed catcher tray beneath, possibly for lack of an appealing "staging" spot for them. I may move it elsewhere.
I’ve been seeing a BIGGGG one near Yonge and eglinton area! Saw him again today and was in SHOCK of its size.. he was on at least the 11th floor of a condo under construction and I could see him clearly! That’s how large it was…. I’ve been googling it for like an hour now; it’s definitely a raven… but wow, so beautiful and majestic
Hi Stella, where in Toronto was this? I occasionally hear/see ravens near where I live in the east end but haven’t seen them for a while! Love these amazing birds. :)
Hi Rebecca, this is in Mimico! They fly over a very wide zone here every day, from the Lakeshore and at least as far north as Queensway. And I didn't know there were ravens in the east end these days--that's fantastic!
Ants do sometimes go for the oranges and jelly, depending on where I put them, but the solution is to hang the jelly/orange holders under ant moats -- if you google that, you'll see how it keeps ants from reaching the sugar. It works! :)
@@stellabastoneintoronto955 Thank you for the information. I saw oriole once last March when we had heavy winter storm. I was not a bird person but since I put bird feeders for my cats I really I enjoy watching them. Doves and starlings are problem. They ate too much and so aggressive to small birds.
Instead of using language, can we not just deny the existence of "genesis" in the first place? That seems to work without harming the western-scientific metaphysics we have, while also addressing the inside-outside dilemma. A substitute might look something like "continuous transformations/translations of an existing landscape" or something.
This jackass has no business teaching anyone anything. If you can't give the reasons for why people do the things they do without mocking them, then you don't understand them, and if you don't understand them, you clearly have no ground for explaining them.
deconstruction = destruction + con destruction = The action or process of causing so much damage to something that it no longer exists or cannot be repaired. con = Persuade (someone) to do or believe something, typically by use of a deception.
The Ladder of Abstraction and the Public Speaker by Andrew Dlugan Published: Sep 15th, 2013 The Ladder of Abstraction“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.” - Immanuel Kant There are many types of bad speakers, and this article is about two of them: 1, Speakers who bury audiences in an avalanche of data without providing the significance. 2. Speakers who discuss theories and ideals, completely detached from real-world practicalities.
Language is a concrete form of thought. So it is actually thought that will always remain radically at the center. It is intellectual arrogance of Derrida to reason as if he is not situated inside "men", inside consciousness. We are not capable of formless thought, because thought itself is a form. Man, God, language, consciousness - all residing in human thought. Our own thought is the neccessary absolute.
THANK YOU SO MUCH! It has been a struggle to understand concepts in my literary criticism class and this is helping immensely. Way more informative than my class and I now feel prepared for my lit crit support group tonight! Professor Fry is lovely. :)
Isn't it odd that we make very bland use of intentionality in order to undermine intentionality. This irony to me is the strongest proof of intentionality.
SO it turns out it is very hard to uncover the intentional structure or meanings if at all. What I've always found strange is that even to say such a thing has itself an intentional structure which we believe we are accessing, and we do this when we read Derrida.
Chris Yoshi yeah but every individual interprets what derrida is saying in a different way. idk if that's even a challenge to what you said but i can imagine him saying something along those lines.
This is interesting. I'll refer to it in a talk I'm planning to give to Young Learners and MultiMOOC electronic village online sessions this Jan 26 (2014). All are welcome: learning2gether.pbworks.com/w/page/32206114/volunteersneeded#SunJan261400gmtMultiMOOCandYLTSIGEVOsessionsjointevent
This is an amazing lecture. I grokked the concept of deconstruction at a Bob Dylan concert last November and am happy to say that it has changed my life. One can methodically break down reality into nothing and, at the same time, build right back up. What is reality? What is language?.. It's been a privilege to have been a fly on the wall during this lecture!
If one drew a line between things or beings that are FIRST!-oriented, or of the eschatological realm, and things/beings that are of the teleological realm, one might find "The Woman With One Point Five Hands" exactly in the middle of these 2 extremes. Folded in half at the mid-point, and then pressed together, so that the former ends would align with each other, and the new "end" would be the middle of the 10th video in the series, 10.5 being half of 21, and there existing 21 vids in the series.
Fitter happier stronger at a better pace slower and more calculated no chance of escape now self-employed concerned (but powerless) an empowered and informed member of society (pragmatism not idealism) will not cry in public less chance of illness
Thinking on the design of the connectivism course: instead of trying to create a curriculum or a body of knowledge, what we are more focus on is in the engagement by the members of the course with the material. La idea here is not to produce some set of learning, no to focus on the content, not to focus on the pedagogy, but focus on the learner.
