[TN-Bird] Re: Ruby-crowned Kinglet scavenging
- From: Ed Schneider <ed.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: jacoblwessels@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2021 19:58:36 -0600
I’ve had RCKI (apologies, Wallace) come to suet before, so I’m guessing they
are just going for the easiest protein/fat sources possible. Long before there
were suet feeders, there were, well, fat and meat-filled mammalian carcasses.
Ed Schneider
Nashville
On Dec 14, 2021, at 7:48 PM, Jacob Wessels <jacoblwessels@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Today in Blount County I had a brief but interesting observation of a
Ruby-crowned Kinglet. It was pulling bits off of what as far as I could tell
was a dried scrap of a deer carcass that someone had thrown out. I went to
grab my camera, but the kinglet had moved on when I returned. I took a quick
look at the Birds of the World species account for Ruby-crowned Kinglets and
did not see this kind of foraging mentioned.
Jacob Wessels
Knox County
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