If You Build It & Fill It, They Will Come- our bird feeder in full swing

The view of a Cardinal in our bird feeder from the upstairs hall window

Much to our whole family's delight, the birds have finally found the Laird's bird feeder and are enjoying the food we have provided them.  The Laird figured out how to secure the bird feeder to a pole and placed it in the back of our home, near the fruit trees.  We can watch the birds perfectly at eye level, from our western great room window or we can peer down at them from the window at the tops of our staircase.

Once the Laird replaced the mixed bird seed, with sunflower seeds, the birds started coming.

We have:
a Red Belly Woodpecker,  a Downy woodpecker, cardinals, blue jays, chickadees, sparrows, nuthatch, junkos (lady Genevieve's favorites)... and a naughty squirrel.  There are some blackish birds we have yet to identify.  It is quite amazing and entertaining to watch them from so close.  They generally take turns and individually visit the feeder, and then fly back to the tree, and another bird swoops in for a snack.

A beautiful male Cardinal feeding

A Blue Jay 

Who needs television when you have the birds to watch.  Lady genevieve has already started to identify & differentiate the woodpecker, cardinals and blue jays at the ripe age of 23 months.  She and the Laird enjoy putting new bird seed/ sunflower seed in the feeder together.