We put a birdfeeder up outside our kitchen window a couple years ago. We have several different types of seed or suet out so that we attract a variety of birds. When the next-door neighbor's cat (an outdoor cat who regularly patrolled our yard) died around the same time, we noticed a great increase in bird visitors. It's fascinating for all of us.
I especially like the woodpeckers. We see several different kinds, and I have to say, they're gorgeous. The girls especially like the junkos and the chickadees, which they can both identify.
We have a particular song sparrow who seems to know when we're having breakfast, because he (or she, I guess -- hard to tell!) comes to sit on the tree outside our window and sing away as we eat. I began saying, when I saw him, "There's our friend the song sparrow!" Hannah has taken up the refrain.
We don't particularly appreciate, though, the starlings. They're nonnative and take nesting boxes and areas that the native birds need. Besides that, they're ugly and eat tons of suet. Hannah recently saw one on our suet feeder and said, "There's our pest, the starling!"
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