Bird Butts

I had just refilled the bird seed feeders for the day and wanted to capture the chaos and shennanigans going on with the house finches and house sparrows fighting for spots. (There are lots of spots, four feeders like this one, plus the wires and the beams of the pergola…)

I thought of trying to set up a tripod, but went with uber simplification instead. I just put a chair underneath the feeder, turned the video on, put the phone facing up toward the bottom of the feeder overhead, let it run for a about a half hour, and then edited out the five minutes at the beginning when the birds were still spooked because I had been out there.

In checking out the result, I was surprised to see and hear the iPhone and the chair it’s resting on getting pelted by seeds dropped from above. Don’t worry, the squirrel and the scrub jays will take care of those.