The electric feeder is a special invention of mine. I cant make another one because I have a special strong solenoid that I cant buy. In town it was mostly sparrows that would raid the feeder and waste 5 lbs a day. Out here now in winter I get mostly junkos who dont waste seeds. In summer they all split.

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Thanks Doug and Daniel.

Doug: I loved the birds jumping over each other!

Daniel: I will try to behave myself from now on!

I now have a "Stellar Jay" in my yard. He is unlike the "Eastern Jay", in that he is a very dark blue. Some people think he is onry, but I enjoy his antics.

We had a beautiful Sabbath here on Hood Canal!

I loved reading about the complicated bird-feeder. It must have been such fun to make.

I was taken with the statement "I have to feed the birds because they like me"

There is a lot of satisfaction watching birds feed.

I enjoy growing fushias, and love to watch the blackbirds and thrushes leaping up to get at the ripe fruit.
Our frosts are very late this year, so there is still plenty of fruit on the bushes for them.

My favourite bird in the garden is the wax-eye. It is a tiny green bird with a white ring around it's eye. They go for the aphids on the roses, and love liquid honey in a dish.

Wild birds love containers of margerine in the winter, and I also melt lard ( I hate the smell) and then set it with wild bird seed and hang it up in plastic mesh bags for the birds to pick at.

Many different ways of feeding Gods wonderful creatures.
I watched a programn on the discovery channel this afternoon of a man in America who rescues unwanted/neglected Parrots. He has over 200 of them now! and become a full time job looking after them.
I really admired him for what he was doing and asked God to bless him.

I've never been a bird person, but when we had a long drought here in Florida, I started leaving some Friskies cat food on top of my garden fence. The birds gobbled it up. The Red Bellied Woodpeckers got so they would drum on the soffit of my house until I went out with some more Friskies. The Cardinals would be little pests trying to slap wing feathers on my windows to get my attention. I've been drafted. Now I'm more conscious of birds and see that I can have a part to help them in some way. During the times I'm allowed to water the lawn, they get into the bushes and enjoy their baths with the sprinkler...really cute to watch them wait for the spray to come around so they can ruffle their feathers in it. I didn't know they have so much going on in their little heads.

BTW, I wish Doug would tell me how to get a custom atavar for here. I can't just "browse" my own pictures and upload one, I have to type in the Url to my own picture, and I don't know exactly how.

Restin, that was a delightful picture you painted of birds in the cat food! I have never thought of giving birds cat food before. I know they love rice and mashed potato.
It hasn't got cold enough here yet to start feeding the birds, but I will remember that when we start getting frosts.
I have 2 averies, and can put the food up on the roof so that my own animals can't help themselves!

Yes, birds do have wonderful brains to think with, and I too enjoy watching them bath on the footpath on a hot summers day, taking advantage of a puddle created by the sprinkler.
I also enjoy watching the birds in the birdbath in my back yard, taking a dip and then feeding from the fushia bushes.
We had too many grapes to cope with this year, so the birds have enjoyed daily feeds with eash access! Normally, I have the vines covered.

Thanks for sharing here.