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Q. I never see more than a couple of chickadees at my feeder. Does that mean that is all I have living in the area?

Absolutely not. You have probably heard me say that birds get about 15% of their daily diets from bird feeders. Now there has been a neat study published on Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s website. The study involved tagging Black-capped, Chickadees, Tufted Timice, White-breasted Nuthatchs, American Goldfinches and House Finches with tiny tags that set off sensor attached to feeders throughout a neighborhood. Some of the findings were impressive. One found that some birds took up to 203 seeds in one day. Another, that a single Titmouse regularly visited 3 different feeders over a half-mile area. The study is call RFID Bird Tracking and you can read more about it at http://www.allaboutbirds.org/page.aspx?pid=2147

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