A few years ago, we gave the girls a bird feeder to hang just outside our living room windows so they could watch the birds. My great aunt and great uncle had a bird feeder and also a feeder for squirrels. It was always fun to watch the birds and squirrels so we chose to carry on the tradition.
One day recently, while looking for bird seed, I came across this super handy bird seed scoop. This bird seed scoop is similar to a funnel where in the handle, is a plastic piece that slides in to close up the hole to fill up the scoop with bird seed. Then this same piece slides back to show an opening, where the funnel part of the scoop is placed into the bird feeder and it then fills up! This is one very handy scoop. Not as much bird seed is flying out everywhere with the funnel design and it’s a tad speedier. It’s a win-win invention for humans and the birds!
Last of the bird brain info. Ha. Redtail hawks are commonplace here in southwestern Idaho. If you happen to look up while out and about, (probably in most rural areas) you’ll see hawks on telephone poles and once in a while, have one fly over you with a mouse or snake in its beak. I’ve seen that three times. Anyhoo, in December we had a hawk show up in the front yard, in our linden tree to be exact. This same hawk, a sharptail, made an appearance again in the tree at the first of January. Becoming very curious about our morning routine, the hawk parked its birdie butt on the covered patio chairs and peered into our house. This sharptail hawk is very fond of our house and goings on, because it’s been showing up at least twice a week in the front yard or on the fencing around our pasture. Interesting. Since our winter has been so lame, birds of prey are going to have a heyday picking off all the gophers and whistle pigs that I’ve already seen running around. Guess it’s time for Thanksgiving pants with this possible feast. Yikes!
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