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Originally Posted by Rumpelteazer
Watching the pigeons doing acrobatic tricks to be able to eat out of the bird feeder I refilled a couple of days ago. Whilst their doing that the little birds do their best to ignore them and feed from both the feeder and the peanut thing. It's busy; there's a row of birds waiting for their turn sitting on my window sill.
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When I was in grad school, I lived in a tiny 3rd floor apartment with tiny windows - which had sliding screens & 2" wide window sills. I used to put out bird food - the small guys had no problems landing and eating - but the pigeons were far too big - I used to watch them bounce off the window screen and then fall off the sill - they never stopped trying to figure out how to land on a sill that was narrower than their feet!
The shy cardinals got quite used to my feeding station - there were several nesting pairs that would eat in turn - first Mr. Cardinal, then the Mrs. - always left one parent on the nest. I slept in one Saturday morning and was awakened by Mr. Cardinal pecking at the screen and screeching at me! I guess the babies were hungry! It was quite nice to have a bit of nature while living in the city.