Bird Brains

We love our bird feeder and the birds who come to feed. However, our bird feeder is designed for small birds. We enjoy the finches, chickadees and juncos that hang out there all winter. We enjoy watching the large groups of sparrows that congregate together although we refer to them as the riffraff. 

Our neighbor's backyard bird feeder does not have a size limit and the larger birds like the cardinals, bluejays, crows, woodpeckers, grackles along with the small birds all feed there. We can watch and enjoy them too.

It is interesting to watch the bigger birds try to get the seeds from our feeder which is impossible for them but they keep trying. We call them birdbrains as we watch them try over and over again to get their impossibly large bodies through the grating that surrounds the bird seed. Sometimes a grackle will try every possible slot in the grating just in case one will let him slip his head in to get some seed. 

Then there is the cardinals who just hang around all the time looking for a way to get some seed. Maybe one of the finches will drop some on the ground.