Bird Seed

 I need to go buy a shit ton of birdseed this weekend.  This is my task outside of the house.  

We put up a birdfeeder in our backyard and I started filling it and at first we saw no birds.  No birds were coming to our feeder.  Well, now the story has changed.  I don’t get a variety of birds here in my treeless backyard, but there are at least two kinds that I see regularly, mostly tiny birds that are a gray in color.  There are also some larger dove birds that are also a gray color.  My last neighborhood was better for birds because it was an older neighborhood and it was filled with very large trees.  Where I live is evidently a bird watchers paradise at the right places.  I like my gray birds though.  I always now sit and watch them while sitting at my kitchen table.  Lately I have been seeing even larger numbers of them.  I fill my bird feeder every day but now it doesn’t even last 24 hours.  I’m filling it back up more than once a day now.  This is why I need to go get a shit ton of birdseed this weekend.

Just now, I walked and looked out a window into my backyard, and there was like a wave of birds who I startled and made fly to the back of the yard.

I feel bad if the little birds are there at an empty feeder, just trying to pack and get the few remaining seeds so I have to keep filling it up.

Maybe someday we will kill our backyard weeds and grow or put in sod with real grass.  Right now, it isn’t a priority.