Feeding Our Birds.

A lark a minute...

Bob usually throws a few handfuls of bird food onto our driveway early on in the day. Even before the sun is up our birds sup. The bird food isn't anything special and mostly consists of sunflower seeds still in their pods and a few kernels of wheat intermixed. It must do the trick as more and more birds of a feather flock together in front of our house and more importantly, in front of our lounge window.

Vital indeed as it provides oodles of entertainment for our princess and showing good form these birds do lovely dives just for her. They are clever enough to realize that she is merely dressing our window and no threat to them. Often when we are lying on the couch we can see various birds do their precise dive for food.

Most of the day a whole gang of avian pals congregate atop the shrub on our garden wall, shooting the breeze whilst keeping an eye out for more yummy morsels sailing across the driveway. It is hard to distinguish from eaten and non-eaten sunflower seeds and to err on the side of caution I throw more.

Lately it seems as if buildings are sprouting up everywhere and sadly, with them the mistaken need for a perfectly styled garden which as we all know is poison to our birds. Feeding birds is the least we can do and this year, I again live in hope that less and less people are succumbing to their lawn mowing addiction. Let's take the time to let our lawns do their thing and eh, push up daisies, dandelions and other weeds. Holding thumbs and most certainly holding back the urge to mow our lawn in May.

Biggi