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Peanut Feeders for Birds

Peanut feeders are usually nothing more than a simple tube feeder.  Instead of a solid tube, however, a stiff wire mesh forms the tube. The holes in the mesh just small enough to keep the peanuts from falling out. Shelled peanuts are offered in the peanut feeders.

Peanut feeder

Peanut feeder

Jays will also take peanuts in the shell. Its quite a site to see a Steller’s Jay swallow a peanut whole.

 

Birding Quick Hits

Blue Jays do Johnny Appleseed one better.  After the retreat of the last ice age, oak trees spread back north faster than might have been expected.  There is speculation that Blue Jays helped the process by caching acorns underground, some of which grew into new trees.