This afternoon, I watched as a chickadee flew up to our window, teetered on one string of the netting, and poked his head up against the glass and picked off a miniscule bit of peanut butter that was stuck to the glass.
Immediately under the eaves over that window, we've rigged a little peanut butter feeding station. It's set up to be high and inaccessible to squirrels, and a little too close to the eaves to allow the bigger birds such as magpies, to eat the peanut butter. The Steller's Jays and gray jays are able to get to it, of course, as well as all the smaller birds. Some of the jays are messy eaters and the peanut butter occasionally flies off and lands on the window glass.
Our windows around the house, the ones with no screens, are "screened" with gillnetting, which we stretch tight over the glass and attach on tiny nails along the window frames. The netting breaks up the reflection and we have fewer bird-glass collisions as a result.
Earlier this afternoon, we saw two golden-crowned kinglets do their quick visit, check the birdbath, take off to parts unknown. We would love to get a better look at them, but they are extremely "flighty." So to speak.
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