Feeding the birds

Easily pleased me.
I have just had two beautiful Goldfinches stop for a short while at my bird feeder. It has made my day.
I am also becoming a bird watcher.

Our blue tits love meal worms but won't eat peanuts. The blackbird sits under the feeder eating the worms knocked out by the blue tits. The robins had a tough time at first trying to hang onto the feeder for long enough to get a worm but they are as agile as the blue tits now! I was a bit put out when I read that meal worms are fed on human excrement in China.

I have gone all Wordsworthian. The daffodils on my patio were looking very sorry for themselves two days ago after those dreadful icy winds , but they have raised their heads again and are looking up.
As I walked about the garden I heard lots of little birds twittering as before.

I warned you. I was wondering how they survived ,
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Easily pleased too as I get pleasure having my morning coffee watching various birds arriving for breakfast. Perfect way to start the day.

I do wonder how dogs survived a generation ago
Dogs lived on scraps years ago, none of this tinned meat or special dried food which is apparently essential these days.

I ve recently started feeding the birds never did before as the neighboutprs cats were always stalking my garden however I got bought a nice bird feeder for my recent birthday then didn’t know what to put in it ground up some peanuts and porridge oats and ground up some musili hope that’s ok ( glad I did a quick look at this post as iPad speller had changed it to ground up Muslims ?

The birds pretty much ignored the food I put out for them when it snowed; having decided it's time to clear it out of the garden, they're now happily munching away. Maybe they prefer it when it's gone rancid ...

I put out a seed mix which I'd bought for myself and didn't want - they ate most of it but left all the pumpkin seeds

and refused the slightly wrinkly apples.

They are very fussy round here.