B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for July 08, 2018

My brother calls bird seed “self-help catfood”

And that, boys and girls, is how the food chain works!

Better change the name to just “feeder”.

Turn it into a squirrel feeder, and I’ll buy half a dozen if you include the final results.

At my house, the squirrels seem to complain about birds in their feeder!

Round here you daren’t carry food out door because of the very predatory seagulls. Dino’s evolved into birds? Yep, I can believe it

“Boy, that escalated quickly…!”

Life in all its literal and figurative forms: social, economic, legal, and most definitely political

It’s some part of the food chain anyway.

I’ve got three feeder poles up, with a total of a dozen various types of feeders (we abut a 15 acre wood.) Ms. Sharp Shinned Hawk does tend to treat it as her personal buffet although I run her off down to the woods if she comes around while I’m out. I think she’s sneering at me.

Come to find out, our birdfeeders are strategically placed within a hawk feeding zone.

I once saw a cat watching birds come to a bird feeder. He then went and lay down under it, obviously waiting for the birds to land in his mouth. But alas, by an amazing coincidence, no bird came to the feeder until several days after he gave up.

Where I live, in the spring, they’re called bear feeders.

Check this out! Hot crossover action!

https://www.gocomics.com/barneyandclyde/2018/07/08

I love watching my bird feeder. It’s on a cable between two poles with 6" pieces of 3/4" PVC pipe down the full length of the cable. I laugh all day watching the fuzzy tailed tree rats try to run over to it..SPLAT, repeat, over and over.

Here in Oregon having a bird feeder is illegal. The offense is called “harassing the wildlife”. I never understood that until now. Okay… Coyotes and Bears instead of Dinos, but the end result is the same.

We have red tail and sharp-shinned hawks that like to visit our feeders. The local cat dines on the chipmunks.

TANSTAAFL