As I had feared, the starlings were by far the first to locate the suet
feeders, and starlings will aggressively defend a winter food source from
all comers. Even though I took all three feeders down this same afternoon,
it was a week solid before they stopped sending scouting parties to see if
the “good stuff” was back—and a month before they deigned to start stripping
the berries left over from the fall. Every similar tree in the neighborhood
was at least half bare before they started on this one.
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