Have Some Fun With Your Birds Now

This is going to be a very short post to give you a quick way to change your mood and liven up your life that costs very little and can reward you instantly.

 

Have Your Birds Over For Dinner

While this may work best if you have a patio or deck, you can pull this off with a feeder you can set up right outside your window. Platform feeders would be best but not necessary.

Depending on what time you get home for work or what time you eat dinner you want to do this just before sunset. That’s when they should be thinking about grabbing their last meal before bedtime. What you need to do is grab about 1/5 cup of sunflower chips and the same amount of hulled peanuts. Walk out your back door, scatter them on the ground (in at least a three foot strip to avoid crowding) and sit back and be entertained!  Depending on your feeder refill schedule, you may have to do this a couple times before they figure it out. In my case, I did this while I was taking a break from my full feeding schedule so interest was quite high. This is not required though.

I have squirrels so I know it’s important to figure out their schedule too. Still, I’ve been able to feed any bird that’s interested before the squirrel pack comes to descend on it. One thing I use that helps is whole peanuts. Most of the time the squirrels will grab one and go away to eat it in peace. Other times, they’re perfectly happy trying to vacuum up the sunflower chips. Don’t sweat it. Make it fun. Just change stuff up each time you do it.

The most important thing is that you create a new feeding source that gets their attention and allows you to view your beautiful birds closer up. That way, you get to see all the squabbling, sharing and general hijinks that go on every day at your other feeders at arm’s length.

I promise you that nothing will lift your spirits faster than watching a titmouse come down, steal away with a peanut piece as big as its head and make off like he’s just committed the perfect crime!

Do Me A Favor

Could you do me a favor? Could you use your smartphone or camera to take a 30 second video of this, upload it to dropbox or google drive and send me the link at help at birdoculars dot com so I can post them in a future post? If you prefer, I can download them and post them on the birdoculars server if space is an issue with you or your service. Either way, I’d love to see your birds taking you up on your dinner invitation. Remember that this is something you can do whenever you feel like it so it doesn’t become something you feel you “have” to do. We all have too many of those things, don’t we?

Give it a go, have fun and let me know how you make out! Trust me, you’ll be glad you did! All I have to do is walk outside at around the time I usually feed them. I’ll see all the cardinals lining up in my trees and the titmice squawking and scolding me while flying from branch to branch. It’s a great feeling!

Please let me know if you have any questions by leaving a comment below.