Our Fine Feathered Friends
Since setting out our Christmas bird feeders a few weeks ago , the first two have been demolished. At first we thought that they blew away in a snow storm, but upon closer inspection we realized that one was on the ground, halfway eaten. The other was completely gone, but the string remained, so something pulled it down. It’s entirely possible that something was a deer; Kirk found fresh tracks one morning when he went out to shovel: But there have also been lots of visitors to the one left one the ground. I interrupted a small flock of sparrows pecking away when I went to look, so I figured I’d go ahead and replace one of the feeders . It only took a few minutes for several little birds to figure out that the black seeds are the good ones: The chickadees (as you see here) are the most interested, and they manage to hang on to the feeder to get the seeds. They’re also fairly acrobatic when it comes to getting what they want: It’s too bad the w...