BIRDFEEDER TRAY and GREENFINCHES

At last!   I have found what I was looking for.  While I love watching the birds eating from my birdfeeder, which is suspended from my washing line at the top of the garden, I have become sick and tired of sweeping up the seed husks and digging out seeds which have been dropped into my tubs and pots and germinated.  There's grass, ryegrass I think, everywhere, not to mention baby sunflowers.  Yesterday I found a tray which attaches to the bottom of the feeder and is held in place by a large plastic screw.  It has holes in the tray for any rain water to drain out of and already, even though I only attached it yesterday, it is full of husks and seeds.  What a relief that it is doing its job.  See what a mess the birds make?

I was thrilled the day before yesterday to see a group of about five Greenfinches eating from my birdfeeder and fluttering around the trees overhanging my garden.  The flash of brilliant yellow along their sides is quite dazzling.   I never used to pay a lot of attention to garden birds - usually they are Magpies, Ravens, Pigeons, Sparrows, or Thrushes, and the occasional Robin - and I suppose you start to take them for granted after a while.  But then, a short while ago, I noticed two very different birds which turned out, upon investigation, to be Goldfinches.  Now I have seen Greenfinches I shall be looking out for even more variety.   Perhaps a parrot or two? 

 

It will be nice when my Ragdoll cat, Alfie stops bringing indoors all the seed husks dangling on his bushy tail.