It’s been trial and error over here, but I finally have some regular customers at this platform feeder. Two blue jays and two cardinals have been stopping over several times a day. I even have seen a couple hummingbirds at a hanging feeder I put up for them.
This first photo was taken during my first stealth mission: I hid in my daughter’s play house, very still, for about 15 minutes, camera ready. Finally this guy came near, but one shot and he was gone. My new lens is rather loud unfortunately! It’s also getting really humid and hot here so I probably have to save my camouflage for the fall.
The main problems I’ve had are squirrel-related. I eventually decided that if you can’t shoot beat ’em, join ’em. I got them their own feeder, which they seem to like. Not that they are leaving the others alone, but they do like their pumpkin seeds. It’s also hilarious to watch a bird land there and try to figure out how to get to that food.
I have loved watching the activity in the yard. I’m not alone in that either. This project has given an old kitty something new to get excited about.
I went so far as to order and put up several types of feeders in different locations around the back yard, only to be inundated with these white-winged doves.
They thwak each other with their wings, coo incessantly, and take all the food from the other birds! I took that multi feeder down for now until I figure out what to do.
By far the favorite is black oil sunflower seeds for everyone, though the blue jays love whole peanuts.
My daughter is interested because I am interested…
She and I have been painting bird house yard art for a couple weeks now. I guess it’s bird week here on the blog. Thursday I will show you what we’ve been up to with that. Thanks for reading!
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