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It’s that time of year.
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The time of year when our backyard looks like something out of an Alfred Hitchcock film.
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Large flocks of starlings, grackles and red winged blackbirds have landed and they strip our feeders in no time flat.
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It’s impossible to keep them full this time of year, and sometimes? I fear reprisal.
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River's world..... 
Either that or you can open the door and let Sir Dudley do his thing.
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He’s not very good with birds. With my luck they’d all fly inside instead……
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Put up a sign in the yard, “FREE WORMS JUST BELOW THE SURFACE.” If they can’t read plain English, use fowl language.
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You know owl the best puns.
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You better feed them! Yikes!
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I do. Believe me..
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Our feeder can be like that in May. The Evening Grosbeaks migrate past our town on the way to the breeding grounds up north (Like we aren’t far enough north already.) There is one big flock, over 200 members and growing yearly, and a few splinter flocks of 20 to 50 members. The first week of May scouts appear, looking for the best feed and supply. For three years we got the main flock, and we were going through a sack of seeds every two days for three weeks. Then one year we were not home to put out feed every day, and the main flock went elsewhere. But then we started getting the splinter flocks. Now a sack lasts a whole week.
The fun part is late summer when they come back south. The babies can fly, but they still can’t feed themselves. Watching the parents feed the babies is so much fun. 3 more weeks, and they are gone. The rest of summer we mostly get blue jays, sparrows, and red polls, but not in big numbers.
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Early spring we see rose breasted grosbeaks, Baltimore Orioles, bluebirds and goldfinches. So much color!
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A rainbow of birds.
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It does look like the set of an Alfred Hitchcock movie….I loath most all birds. Now remember I said most…lol.
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What! I love birds, they’re such graceful little creatures….
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Your neck of the woods lacks the flying rat with wings called pigeons…those flying germfests.
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Nary a pigeon in sight. I think we’ve had one in the past 20 years…
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Lucky you, it’s probably all those birds of prey over yonder.
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WOW! At first, I thought they were all ravens. That’s a boatload of birds for sure!
I refill my one and only feeder about every 5 days; I have lots of woodpeckers, dove, cardinals, and blue jays.
I noticed a few ‘black birds’ in the front yard the other day, but they never went near the feeder. It was kind of unusual to see them in our yard.
I love watching the birds and it’s weird to me when someone doesn’t like birds.
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I adore our birds and we get a nice variety. But this time if the year it’s flicks and flicks if incessantly ravenous eaters. I can’t keep up!
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Don’t open the window!
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When I open the window they scatter every which way and the noise is loud!
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I love this.
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