Viewing post #1312640 by plantladylin

Birds have been scarce around my yard the past week or so and I'm not sure why. Even with berries, acorns etc. in abundance, I usually have visitors at the feeders. Four seed feeders and three suet feeders were filled day before yesterday and they were all still full this morning! Usually the Raccoons raid the feeders at night and clean everything out so I'm not sure what's going on; it's really odd. I've checked the seed as well as the suet cakes and I don't find mildew, mold, ants or anything unusual. I finally spotted a Cardinal at a feeder this morning and the little Warblers are hanging out at the tops of the oak trees.


Something has been chewing off branches of my Ric Rac Orchid Cactus lately and this morning I found two more branches on the ground along with two pots of Holiday Cactus beneath the oak tree dumped over and the plants were out of the pots a few feet away. The squirrels were up and down that particular oak tree so I'm blaming them. Those tree rats are everywhere and it's fun watching their antics but I don't like them eating my plants. Years ago I had problems with them eating and stealing orchids that I had hanging in a backyard tree.