Bird Buffet

To be perfectly clear, because I don’t want to be considered a monster, we have set up a buffet to feed the local birds, we are not having a buffet for ourselves consisting of birds.

In the last month I got two of the hummingbird feeders up and one of the seed feeders, but we’ve attracted enough birds so that there’s sometimes a traffic jam, particularly at the one seed feeder. Today I found more of our bird feeders in all of the stacks of boxes filling up the garage and did some work out on the pergola putting up hooks, then cleaned all of the feeders. When all was said and done, we now have four of each kind of feeder, the four hummingbird feeders at the back over the brick wall and the four seed feeders at the front hanging over the turf.

If you look at the first hummingbird feeder on the far left in the first picture, you’ll see this one wasting no time in testing out the new nectar. I literally had just put it up and walked off to take the picture, maybe ten or fifteen seconds, and this one was all over it. And stupid me was worried that it might take a while for the birds to “find” the new feeders.

Here you can see all eight, so let the feasting begin!