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The feeding station was a pretty busy place this morning!

Gary, you certainly provide a wonderful variety of food for the birds.  Are all those branches natural or did you add a few?

Quote from: Jeanne Lee on June 28, 2010, 12:21:15 PM
Gary, you certainly provide a wonderful variety of food for the birds.  Are all those branches natural or did you add a few?

They're well-fed.  No denying that!  I added ALL the branches.  It's not like it's very difficult - drill a hole, plug it with a branch 

Gary, since I know about how to add branches, I suspected you had added at least some of them.   

Quote from: Jeanne Lee on June 28, 2010, 02:49:55 PM
Gary, since I know about how to add branches, I suspected you had added at least some of them.   

hehehehe... So I figured.

 Yep, I'd say it's busy! Great job on the setup Gary. I'm curious about a couple of things. Is it a living tree or one you setup? I really like the table type feeder. Is the top of it concave and if so, is there a problem with rain water? Is it notched in to those two main trunks, or perhaps dowelled? Thanks for sharing this with us. I love posts like these as they are so helpful.

Quote from: jimiam on June 28, 2010, 03:46:37 PM
Yep, I'd say it's busy! Great job on the setup Gary. I'm curious about a couple of things. Is it a living tree or one you setup? I really like the table type feeder. Is the top of it concave and if so, is there a problem with rain water? Is it notched in to those two main trunks, or perhaps dowelled? Thanks for sharing this with us. I love posts like these as they are so helpful.

I made this from storm debris from when the remnants of Hurricane Ike blew through here a couple of years ago, Jim.  The main trunk is one solid piece of hard maple.  The tray is a section of log I hollowed out with a chisel and inserted an discarded top from a spool of CDs or DVDs.  I inverted it and stapled it in from the bottom.  No problem with rain water as the discarded top is not a perfect fit (intentionally) and so lets the water drain quite readily.

More teaching going on here!  Thank you for the ideas Gary. 

Love your setup, it is really quite lovely!

Quote from: JudyB on June 28, 2010, 06:04:54 PM
More teaching going on here!  Thank you for the ideas Gary. 

Love your setup, it is really quite lovely!

Don't know if I'd call it "teaching", Judy.  Just sharing ideas, really.  But, thanks.

Quote from: gjtoth on June 28, 2010, 08:30:26 PM

Quote from: JudyB on June 28, 2010, 06:04:54 PM
More teaching going on here!  Thank you for the ideas Gary. 

Love your setup, it is really quite lovely!

Don't know if I'd call it "teaching", Judy.  Just sharing ideas, really.  But, thanks.

You guys can call it what you like, but I'm writting this stuff DOWN!    No sir,
I'm not taking a chance on forgetting.
  All kidding aside Gary, it's really a great thing that you are willing to share so much. I have learned a lot from your posts, and really appreciate you.