Sparrows, Magpies and a Robin

[supermouse]

There's a gang of sparrows that live around here and spend hours at a time eating suet in the branches outide. Now and then a robin claims a suet-filled coconut shell, but even he can't see off fifteen house sparrows.

The other visitors come to the windowsill above; magpies, who are very polite about taking a lump of suet and going off with it. Meanwhile, the sparrows hoover up the rest.

Nearly nine in the morning and the street is very quiet. I think people are keeping their kids off school. The sparrows aren't here yet: they have actual visiting hours, 10am and 2pm.

Comments

[julesjones]

My clan of sparrows hang out in the hedge I thoughtfully used as backdrop to the feeder. Since it's right in front of the front window, I have an excellent view of the pecking order in the group. I had entirely too much malicious pleasure in putting out a second feeder and watching the dominant sparrows try to enforce "wait until you're allowed" on two feeders and the water bowl all at once. :-)

This year's batch are much more timid than last year's, who knew exactly how food appeared in the feeders and would ignore me until I got almost to within grabbing distance.

[supermouse]

This is the kind of pleasure I can get behind.

Ours have politics around the coconut shell, but it's all out of sight to me and if I appear they're all gone at once.