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Took me 3 tries to figure out why the chickadees stopped coming to my feeder
I was getting tons of chickadees at my feeder last winter, then in March they just vanished. I tried switching seed brands, moving the feeder to a different tree branch, even buying a new feeder with wider ports. Nothing worked for two weeks. Then I noticed a stray cat from down the street was hiding under my porch steps every morning, scaring the birds off. I put up a motion-activated sprinkler near the porch and the cat stopped coming by. Within 3 days the chickadees were back like nothing happened. Has anyone else had a predator scare away their regular birds without realizing it?
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riley4314d ago
Wait have you ever noticed how once you fix one thing it feels like the whole neighborhood changes? It's wild how something as small as a cat hiding under your porch can mess up the natural flow of things for weeks. Makes you wonder how many other things in life are like that, you know? Like you're trying to solve the wrong problem the whole time but the real fix was hiding in plain sight. I swear half the time we're just overcomplicating things when the answer is simpler than we think.
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lucasschmidt13d ago
I had this same thing happen with a loose board on my back fence last summer. Fixed it one afternoon and suddenly the neighbor's dog stopped barking at my yard every morning. Sometimes the smallest fix unlocks the biggest peace of mind.
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