When it comes to feeding peanuts, I put just a hand full of in shell peanuts out in a small terra cotta pot that I have placed in the crock of my cherry tree for the jays and the wood peckers each morning.
Thanks Mark. I'll tell you what, my mesh feeder filled with good quality whole raw peanuts was just ignored by the red-bellied woodpeckers that I have here in central eastern Florida. It was suggested that I remove the other feeders on the pole and perhaps the woodpeckers would start using it. I had great success with this feeder in Kansas, Ohio and Oklahoma. So I've been puzzled by this. I've been here 1 1/2 yrs. and I've seen one downy woodpecker but not at the feeders. We also have pileated too, but they've not been at the feeders, just the trees behind our property. The red-bellied woodpeckers do use the suet feeder using a suet cake with a combo of peanuts, seeds and bark butter bits). I really enjoy your channel.
Thank you. I’m glad you enjoy the channel! My first thought is that the presence of insects year round their may have something to with the peanut situation.
I mix peanuts into my main feeder which is a gravity camera feeder with fruit and other seeds and there is no problem. This feeder has a stove pipe baffle. I have other gravity feeders which are squirrel proof I use this mix on which it works on as well. I think the other seeds mix help the peanuts move thru the feeder. My red bellied-woodpecker will eat fruit over peanuts most of the time.
Thanks again i needed to hear that and see the feeders for peanuts i like the mesh and for my blue Jay's shelled on my platform 😊🙏🐦 Thank you God Bless you all 🙏
Mark, Thanks for a great video very informative! Have you ever used or reviewed any of the Brome Squirrel Buster feeders? I have three and love them especially the nut feeder.
I do and absolutely love them. I wrote an article several years ago and proclaimed the Squirrel Buster Plus the greatest bird feeder ever made. I’ve never used their nut feeder.
I feed raw shelled peanuts to attract blue jays. They wait for me to fill the feeders. They empty it quickly. Cardinals hang out on the ground for scraps.
besides in-shell peanuts, is there anything else I could put out for the jays that would deter the house sparrows? Ideally, a no-mess option would be preferred, but those little undesirables get into everything else!
I asked the owner of the company the same thing. He explained that the cost of getting the wire bent correctly is actually more expensive than making plexiglass tubes and perches.