So glad you live where you do and give us eager minds new knowledge about the birds you see and connect with in your backyard "friends"! Wish you could have recognized the pileated you found but I'm with you (human) and glad it wasn't BB ...
Pre-pandemic, I joined a committee with STL Audubon Society to do bird mortality surveys in downtown St. Louis. As heartbreaking as it was finding birds that had been killed by window strikes, we started finding birds without heads around the Thomas Eagleton Federal Courthouse. When security asked what we were doing, we explained our survey. Security staff then told of a nesting Peregrine Falcon on the 22nd floor, outside a library window. This of course explained the headless corpses. I believe that World Bird Sanctuary was allowed into the courthouse to observe the nesting falcons, but could not band chicks. The windows were sealed.
I used to get it locally at our Duluth Wild Birds Unlimited, but since they closed, I've been ordering it from the Wild Birds Unlimited in Eden Prairie--it arrives usually the day after I place a morning order, and always within two business days.
So glad you live where you do and give us eager minds new knowledge about the birds you see and connect with in your backyard "friends"! Wish you could have recognized the pileated you found but I'm with you (human) and glad it wasn't BB ...
Pre-pandemic, I joined a committee with STL Audubon Society to do bird mortality surveys in downtown St. Louis. As heartbreaking as it was finding birds that had been killed by window strikes, we started finding birds without heads around the Thomas Eagleton Federal Courthouse. When security asked what we were doing, we explained our survey. Security staff then told of a nesting Peregrine Falcon on the 22nd floor, outside a library window. This of course explained the headless corpses. I believe that World Bird Sanctuary was allowed into the courthouse to observe the nesting falcons, but could not band chicks. The windows were sealed.
I have hope for BB and his mate, Chickadee!
Where do you purchase ‘super suet’?
I purchase suet at the butcher’s, but it doesn’t seem to be appreciated
I used to get it locally at our Duluth Wild Birds Unlimited, but since they closed, I've been ordering it from the Wild Birds Unlimited in Eden Prairie--it arrives usually the day after I place a morning order, and always within two business days.