My wife fills a gallon ice cream bucket with seed and fills her main feeder, the scatters the rest around the area. It is all just outside if our large dining room windows. An area of about 12ft x 12ft with birdbath and sitting bench. We can tell “our” birds by their girth, and the visitors by their slim builds. Same for squirrels. They go through a 50lb bag of seed in about two weeks. She’s almost like Ellie Mae with her critters, except for no racoons allowed.
Its entertainment for us at mealtime. A dozen squirrels, and maybe a dozen species of birds during winter.
My dad would love it at our house if he were still alive. He could name each bird.
Yeah, hubby woke me up refilling the feeders. I don’t know what kind of birds they all are but they’re fun to watch - sparrows, dove, titmouse, cardinals, verio, warblers, finch and hawks today. Some redwinged black birds came through a few days ago. I’ve watching heron, gulls, pelicans and brown ducks feeding out in the water for the past 30 minutes. There’s a heron who likes to taunt the dogs by sitting just outside the fence going neener-neener. There are eagles here this time of year but I rarely see one. Last summer we had a woodpecker who would hang upside down on the feeders and crank his neck around to eat. Funniest thing ever.