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Garden Shadows for Wednesday

During the winter I feed the birds peanuts and sunflower seeds. This year I placed the feeder in Dustin’s garden. Trying to keep the mess from the deck. Birds can really get messy.

The trade off will be not as many photos. I could stand inside and snap deck photos pretty easily. But not so much now that the feeder is moved.

No sunflower seeds have been put out yet but I will soon. The blue jays and cardinals love the peanuts.

But they are being fed and that is the main thing. I will still try to get photos from time to time.

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Written by Carol DM

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    • Blue Jays, Cardinals and woodpeckers love these peanuts. I will mix a few sunflowers in later. I try to stay away from anything else due to the ratbirds!

    • I just really enjoy seeing them flock to the backyard. And they are looking for food when the insects are gone, so I say why not help them. Keeping the feeder in the garden should help the mess.

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  1. I also kept the birds this year but I don’t know if I will …. they are mostly sparrows and are very aggressive and don’t leave other birds healthy

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  2. It’s so nice of you to feed the birds. As I am staying in tropical country, so I don’t feed the birds in the winter.

    I used to feed the birds here, but some people in the neighborhood complain about it (though they might not complain about me), so I just stop feeding the birds now. Here, some people don’t like the mess of birds. I still leave a slice of bread or two in my garden for the birds sometimes, though I think the birds can also find food elsewhere as it’s hot here.

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