Yesterday I bought a new seed feeder for the sparrows because there are about forty that come over all at once so I presume that they are still out to fool the sparrowhawk. On the original feeder there are only four feeding holes so I thought that if I bought another one then twice as many could feed at the same time.
The problem is, the new one is a bright yellow colour! Now, I don't know if sparrows see in colour or not (the other feeder is grey), but they haven't been on the new one yet. So I'm still putting seed on the bird table too because I can't bear the thought of them coming over to see me and then going hungry because they can't all feed at once. The only problem with putting food on the bird table at the moment is that there are a couple of collared doves that eat everything and the wretched wood pigeons see them then they try to get a free feed. The wood pigeons always do great big poops everywhere so when I go out of the back door, I have to watch where I put my feet.
Perhaps tomorrow, I will swop the feeders over to see if they go onto the new one and keep my fingers crossed!
Just another little note, this afternoon I was going to do some gardening but as I went out the back door, I saw something move on the wall. It was a squirrel, but not one that I had seen before and it was very shy, so I came back in and hopefully it will come back. I've wedged a peanut under the lid of the nut box so I shall know when it's been there.
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