Don't mind the raccoons so much but the birds are too many to feed and make such a loud racket when they congregate and the dogs don't need my help.
Birds here aren’t too bad, I buy second day old bread and rip it into small bird size pieces, I have a small child’s pail, actually it used to be my grandson’s, anyway, I fill it about 3/4 of the way with bread and then go out about 5:30am or so and throw handfuls off the deck! It’s usually all gone in about an hour, if the birds see the dry cat food before I pick it up then I have birds all over the deck, that I don’t like, I don’t mind them in the yard but I do mind them on the deck. They are very quiet, don’t make hardly any noise, it’s kinda scary sometimes, like something outta the Hitchcock movie the original “the birds” when I go out in the morning they are already sitting in the big tree just waiting for me to come out! LOL! When I walk out not one of them moves,, they are very quiet and as soon as I come in the house they start calling their buddies, that lasts for about a minute then it’s quiet again, kinda interesting to watch.