A stranger at the feeder changed my whole setup after one comment

Last Tuesday I had this older guy walk past my yard while I was filling my tube feeder, and he just said "you know those perches are too short for the chickadees to land right?" I thought it was rude at first, but then I watched for a few days and he was totally right. I switched to a longer perch model from my local bird supply shop in Portland for $18 and now I get twice as many chickadees and nuthatches visiting. Has anyone else had a random passerby point out something obvious that actually fixed your bird activity?

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william4072mo ago

Funny how that works, right? Random people sometimes see stuff we've been staring at forever. It's like when someone points out a typo you've read past a hundred times, suddenly you can't unsee it. Glad the old guy knew his birds!

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