[Mnbird] Raisins and Robins

linda whyte birds at moosewoods.us
Mon Apr 13 06:18:12 CDT 2020


Yes! We buy suet cakes with mealworms in it.
Linda

On Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 9:27 PM Mary Norman <marylouisenorman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I find they also like meal worms!
>
> Mary Norman
> Waconia
>
> On Apr 12, 2020, at 4:49 PM, linda whyte via Mnbird <
> mnbird at lists.mnbird.net> wrote:
>
> Ours also love Golden Safflower seed, and the leftover crumbles of suet
> cake. In last year's reversions to winter, they learned to eat from the
> hanging seed tray, a hanging suet/seed cylinder, and the hanging suet cage.
> They became pretty adept at it, and I suspect these are the same individual
> Robins. I'm out of raisins, but maybe they'll try the cranberries I put in
> the tray.
> Linda Whyte
>
> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020, 3:24 PM DONALD GRUSSING Owner via Mnbird <
> mnbird at lists.mnbird.net> wrote:
>
>> If you have overhanging eaves on your home that leaves some ground
>> exposed beneath them, spread out a handful of raisins today for the robins
>> to eat. They are territorial now and will hang around if they can, rather
>> than taking off to hunt for some berries to survive on. You will help and
>> perhaps save a life in this snow.
>>
>> Don Grussning
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