So true. Last summer I had a couple of cardinals that came to feed (I didn’t have a regular feeder, but I put seed out in my empty fountain). But they beat a hasty retreat when the blue jay would come around. Too bad. The cardinals are lovely!
But I just feed them all, His Eminence The Cardinal and the humble Starling, the showy and noisy Jay and the quiet and drab Mourning Dove. The squirrels get a nibble from ears of corn. A cake of suet for the nuthatches. Soon the male finches will be sporting their courting colors and we'll have some white-capped sparrows munching on the dandelion blooms (good to see those go to some use). I get a few hummingbirds around the hanging baskets. We have a mockingbird in the neighborhood and I always like sitting outside seeing how many different calls I can identify. I had my kid out with me one night listening. We heard that little guy pretending to be a robin, a cardinal, a catbird. A very skillful mimicker.
All Nature's Children and God's creatures.