There are other birds in our wooded complex aside from the ones I’ve already shown you. These birds have thus far spurned my seedy advances. Weird thing is, these are the birds that in the past would swarm all over my feeders. So why, oh why, will they not dine now at Chez NutmegNine?
Here are my missing guests. Stock art is being used in lieu of actually blurry patio images.
Blue Jay
Jays are everywhere here, as ubiquitous as the Cardinal. I see them in the tree outside the window, they shriek at our cat Lucy, and according to the Cornell Bird Lab:
Blue Jays are intelligent and adaptable, taking advantage of almost any food resource, and will readily take to back yard bird feeders. [except mine]
Northern Mockingbird
There are about a dozen mockingbirds living on one end of our building. But do they venture up to my balcony? I have raisins in the feeder, and now mealworms, both of which are irresistible to mockingbirds. It’s only a matter of time. Bwahahaha! Mockingbirds absolutely loathe Cardinals, though, so maybe they’ve come to a gentlebird’s agreement.
American Goldfinch
Goldfinches are common in the meadow area of the park across the street. They twitter in the sapling maples and from within the high brush. The other day I saw a bunch in a feeder near our mail/fitness center. The Goldfinches were eating thistle seed while hanging upside-down on the feeder’s wire mesh. I have a Goldfinch feeder, but they’ve yet to venture over, even though it’s in the geographic center between the meadow and the fitness center. I’m patient, though. They’ll come. All of them.
