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Birds at the tips of my fingers - almost!
Oneofseven
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I have a new bird feeder, and birds almost at the tips of my fingers! I have hung a coconut shell outside the window next to my desk, and now I can sit at the computer and watch all the birds feeding. They are no more than 5 feet away from me, and completely unconcerned. It's wonderful! So far I have had blue tits and great tits in abundance, together with a coal tit and a robin. Very time consuming, but such a pleasure!
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Sounds lovely - but you won't get much work done, now!
Ah, but you see, my only work is in the garden. So inside or out, I can enjoy myself! (Oh, forgot about the forbidden word, h*******k!)
Now - there's no need to use words like that!!!! I'm the same - not too much in winter, but the minimum of h*******k gets done in spring and summer, so that I can spend my time outside.
I put half a coconut shell out at Xmas, and not had a single bird peck at it yet. I wish I'd eaten the lot instead of just half! So you are lucky they like yours, unless it's filled with special bird food.
Diggingdoris, I make up a mix of lard, porridge oats (value price), sunflower hearts, ground up peanuts and whatever dried fruit I have available to fill the shells. It's a bit of a rush replacing an empty shell with a full one, because I have two feeding stations but only four shells, and at the rate the birds are eating I am making up a new mix every day!
More birds are coming all the time, I now have blackbirds and woodpeckers as well. It is giving me great pleasure.