Birds, Birds, and more Birds

A few weeks ago we went to visit Heidlebeere and her family and saw that they had hung a couple of bird feeders on two trees out in their backyard.  But what was amazing was the huge variety of birds that were constantly flocking around the feeders.  It was amazing!

They had a lot of little chickadees, all over the place! Both trees, all the feeders!

They would sit in the trees waiting for a turn at the feeders, there were so many.

They packed around the feeders.  I wouldn't be surprised to hear they had to refill the feeders every few days, there were so many birds.

Sloppy as birds are, there was plenty of seed on the ground under the feeders so, of course, there were birds down there, too!

But what was amazing was the variety of birds.  I never looked out the windows but what there were birds at the feeders and in the trees.

We see cardinals at our house on a regular basis, but here there would be three, four, and sometimes five pair of cardinals.  They would almost always be in pairs, male and female.

There were plenty of blue jays, as well.  They are a pretty bird.

Birds all over the place.  But what I found really amazing was the whole time we were there I did not see a single squirrel.  Heidlebeere said they never see squirrels getting into their feeders.  That's just plain strange. 

With no squirrels to compete with, its no wonder the birds were so plentiful!  It was amazing.

So much more fun than at our backyard, where the squirrels are always emptying the feeders.  Not only emptying them, but trashing them.  It was really amazing to see!