Bird Brains

The mourning doves come to our bird feeder. They are too big to fit inside the cage that surrounds the seeds but they try. And then they try again. They go away and then they come back and try again. Eventually they just hang out and gather some of the seed droppings that end up on the ground under the feeder.

Not to pick on the doves because the cardinals hang out at the feeder they can't get to even more than the doves. We actually haven't seen all that many doves this winter so far but the cardinals are there every day perching on the outside of the feeder thinking with their bird brains that somehow this time they may be able to get in there and have some of those seeds. Not. 

Occasionally we also get some large woodpeckers and some big black birds that think they should be able to get some seeds too. It is all highly entertaining from my chair at the kitchen table when I look up from my laptop to see those bird brains trying to figure out how to get some seeds.