[OT] Wild birds, was Re: fitting help (man's shirt)

Pogonip wrote:
Thank you. Added to my Amazon Wish List.

You're welcome. I really like that book.

My DH gave me the Peterson Guide and a small pair of binoculars.
It's put me in a quandary. To use the binoculars, I have to
take my glasses off, and my eyes are so bad that I still can
hardly make anything out, plus the problem of finding what I'm
trying to see....binoculars are not "homing" devices. I have to
find something I recognize and then work right or left, up or
down from there and by the time I get there, whatever is likely
to be gone. Frustrating.

I agree that using binoculars, especially over glasses, is
frustrating. I use Bushnell 12X25, and I am able to use them with my
glasses on, but sometimes I remove the glasses and fiddle with the
focusing knobs to compensate for my myopia.

I am drawing the line at making a list. Haha. What comes,
comes, and I just try to enjoy the visit.

I don't have a formal "list" I just make a notation in my field guide
with the location ("maple tree" "birch trees" "fir trees" "ground"
whatever) and the date I first observe a new species. It's just for
my own enjoyment, and I am amazed sometimes when I review the numbers.
Oh, and I think I forgot to include the pine siskins...greedy little
buggers.

I still smoke, but
not in the house, so I spend some time on the back porch,

Tsk!!! I managed to quit a two-pack-a-day habit in 1975. I've never
regreted it. Although I'd sure like to lose a few pounds...

which
is the old kind that's closed in with windows all around. I
have a stool by a window, and unlatch the screen to toss out my
peanuts. I got a huge Rubbermaid container with wheels that is
outside, and I keep the feed in there. When it was in bags on
the backporch, some mice helped themselves, despite the feline
presence. The container is mouse and raccoon proof, so far,
anyway.

I keep a supply of seeds on the deck, in a five-gallon pail with a
snap-on lid. The other morning, the pail was over on its side, and
there were chew marks on the rim of the lid. Fortuantley the critter
didn't get the lid off, but it sure tried!

I am spending a bit on birdfood, though. Little devils
eat and drop food to the others on the ground, and go through
the feeder in a day. I must be offering them too good a
smorgasbord. I have two feeders - one with thistle for the
finches and wrens, another with mixed feed of millet, corn,
sunflower seed and I don't know what else. In the winter, I put
out a suet cake and another cake of compressed feed. Then
there's the birdbath... --

I don't offer as wide a variety as you, mostly I put out black-oil
sunflower seeds and the hummingbird feeders. In the winter I add some
peanutbutter coated pinecones. I dislike the weeds from the mixed
"wild-bird" seed.

Beverly


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