Bird feeder is Fun !

[Ironman]

Andrew/Mella: We all know that the stage of ripeness that we/humans eat fruit is really many times not completely ripe. Birds and other animals usually eat fruit that has fully ripened on the plant of origin or fallen to the ground an is in stage of decomposition. The one gallon cans were filled with banana peals/peaches/melons etc and allowed to putrefy which is the perfect media for fruit fly cultures. The abundance of the fruit flies at that source would attract and provide a cheap and easy to maintain live protein source for the smaller birds. They just sit on top of the wire, sometimes fanning their wings to get the flies to take off trying to escape through the wire mesh and another fast food protein meal was delivered. Spoiled/petrified fruit consumed by most soft billed birds (toucans, turacos, barbets, chloropisis, African sun birds, Brazilian sugar birds, etc) because of the high sugar/alcohol and the presence of aspergillus fungal spores causes intestinal problems not to mention increasing the fluid content and transit time of the fecal material (because the birds body is trying to eliminate the rotten material from the digestive system as quickly as possible) in creates dehydration syndromes.

Make sense?


Will Peratino