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Reflections of an Amateur Birder- Bird Feeder Duels

By Doug Horvath | Wednesday, February 17, 2010, 04:19 PM

Written By Lisa McGurk

I enjoy watching the Window on Wildlife at Germantown Nature Center for many reasons. One of the things that makes it especially interesting is watching the duels that develop around the more popular feeders. We have a green feeder that is especially popular with the purple and house finches. I don’t know if it is just our birds, but I have noticed that the female purple finches seem bolder than the male purple finches. I have watched female purple finches chase off male house finches. Another entertaining duel that I saw was between a female hairy woodpecker and a male red-bellied woodpecker. They did a sort of dance around the tree where one of our suet feeders hangs. She then flew up to our suet feeder next to our window and I was able to get a really good look at her. Come out to the Nature Center on a weekend (we are open Friday noon to 5, Saturday 10 to 5 and Sunday noon to 5) to see these entertaining duels in person.

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