I have two open tray feeders. One is on a porch rail, the other about 5 feet up on a slender metal pole and has a cover. Someone comes at night and eats black oil sunflower seeds and leaves presents. These are small narrow footballs of chewed seed remains - about half inch long, quarter inch wide, narrow ovals like thin footballs. There is no fecal material but something holds the stuff together. Looks more like something coughed up or spat out, but constant shapes. We are high on a hill with a lot of woodland, with 114 bird species and many mammals (rabbit, deer, possum, mice (stinking up one car) squirrels - grey and fox, ? flying not seen and maybe more. Anyone know who the thief is? Thanks Ralph and Kay Brinkhurst Lebanon, Wilson Co. TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. ----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================