Saturday, July 2, 2011

Don't forget the birds [update 7-7-1]

I'm doing what I can to get close to nature as I can. Tending my garden barefoot is one way to get close to bature, but birds are becoming another. The wild bird seed I bought earlier has only attracted little brown birds. I've seen goldfinches in the garden, but not at the feeder. I've learned they prefer nyjer seeds and they prefer a small, softish perch, so I bought a thistle sock. It works! The goldfinch have found the food and are singing about it.

[When I was outside the other day, Alexi told me the birds coming to my feeder were eating his wife's strawberries and would eat the tomatoes. Well, that's what I read from what he was saying. His English is pretty good, but Ukrainian to English means that he's not that great about using articles and conjucating verbs to indicate past, present, future. So technically, I'm guessing he was talking about the birds eating the strawberries in the past tense, not future. No problem, I took down the wild bird feeder. I left up the sock feeder. I think Valentina (Alexi's wife) is upset about this, but I know goldfinches aren't going to eat fruit. Does anyone need 7 lbs of mixed wild bird seed?]

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