Here Birdie, Birdie!

Don’t you love surprises in the mail?

Me too – and a big box awaited me at the post office last week. I received a lovely copper and glass ‘Sip and Seed Bird Feeder’ from Birdscapes Garden. Bird Feeders are lovely additions to any garden and it’s so much fun to see which critters they attract!

I immediately went to the grocery store where I was totally unaware as to where to look for birdseed. I asked the young man who was organizing oranges in the produce department and totally confounded him with my question, so I went to the service desk. Well, it’s in the pet food section of course – I should have known that!

Once home I filled my Sip and Seed, but chose to not put water in the one tube as the temperature was near freezing – the birdies need lots of food at this time of year anyway and there’s always plenty of water around beautiful rainy BC. I hung the Sip and Seed on the side of the garage, put the dog and two cats in the house, then tried to entice a seagull into the courtyard. You can see how successful I was!

My seagull friend was not co-operative but in no time at all, a squirrel and two Junco’s were in the courtyard, looking at the bird feeder. I snapped a couple of photos but as soon as I moved they skittered away so I wasn’t able to get a picture of them on the feeder. They do love it though! If I move it just a little further from the door perhaps they won’t be quite so scared. Here is Mr Squirrel – he was first to sniff out the birdseed!

Then the Junco’s showed up:

I love having the birds and squirrels in my courtyard as they are such fun to watch. As they get used to me in the doorway, snapping pictures, I know they’ll get braver while eating from their lovely new feeder.

Filling the feeder was a snap and it looks very attractive hanging from my garage, while enticing all sorts of Mother Nature’s creatures to visit me. Now, don’t blink or you will miss the Junco sitting on top of the feeder then swooping down to get a seed. I cleared a small section so he could get at the seed. Why didn’t I think of putting it under cover so the snow didn’t cover it? I don’t know either.

Be kind to the tweety birds this year – buy a feeder at birdfeeders.com and enjoy year round visitors to your backyard!