Ratty has a plan to take back Toad Hall

All God's creatures got a place in the choir
Some sing low and some sing higher
Some sing out loud on the telephone wire
Some just clap their hands or paws or anything they got, now

And throw all the food on the floor!

Unacceptable.

But Team 61 has a plan.

We have three feeders in the yard.

One has a block of safflower seed,

One holds niger seed for my flying pigs,

And one holds the medium priced fare that everyone, except cardinals, likes.

The feeder by the stairs 

holds the filet minion of bird seed,

the expensive stuff.

Notice the squirrels have attacked the craft show feeders from last year, 

that drug us into this bird feeding business.

The cardinals like that feeder, and are reduced to scavenging under the big feeder until  

spring, and we can provide them a real feeder. Stay tuned, I have ideas!

I have been advised that black birds do not like safflower seed.

This stuff.

Aha!

I have never seen a jay, starling or cowbird on this feeder.

I guess that's why.

When we fill the feeders tomorrow, we will put a lighter touch on the big bird feeder. 

It's already bluejay proof; they are too big to sit on a ring and use a feeding hole.

The starlings are almost too big; the cowbirds are not too big.

So, we will use technology to send them down below,

To clean up their mess, and dine with the squirrels.

Then we will fill the feeder at the stairwell with safflower seed.

Hahahahahahah.

Pt-ooie.

Take that you stupid starlings, go eat all the stuff you put on the ground.

That said, I have the new camera and here's what I did with it today:

A tufted titmouse.

A chickadee.

A finch and a nuthatch.

It's the best picture I got of the nuthatch. Today. I'll get him!

Too many birds on this feeder!

Who does he think he is?

And stay away!

At least two downy woodpeckers use this feeder.

Look at that fat belly. 

And, of course, my flying pigs.

Fat little bellies here, too!.