The birds I "keep" these days are the outside wild ones. I feed them and have places for the cats to sit and bird watch, too. I have two window feeders and sometimes the cat and the bird are inches apart, until the bird realizes there's a cat watching! lol
I get to watch black-capped and chestnut-backed chickadees, house finches, goldfinches, juncos, wrens, downy woodpeckers, evening grosbeaks, and in the summer we will have black-headed grosbeaks. There are others. I've had to go outside on several occasions to let a hawk know that this was not the place for it to be. I have been discouraging the red-wing blackbirds.
They are all quite entertaining while I work at my desk. They are a whole lot easier to take care of than the flock of cockatiels and parakeets I once had. I probably had about 35 cockatiels and I was hand feeding the babies. I had around a hundred parakeets and English parakeets, too, and my son and I showed them.
Yes, the wild birds are just as interesting and a whole lot easier to take care of. LOL
Does anybody here raise birds?
Cheryl |