Angry Birds? Not Quite, But They Are Upset With Us!

Since the popular game (and now a movie?) is called Angry Birds, I could not resist using that in my title for this thread.
We always put food out for the bird and squirrels, and they have learned to come to our "Birdie Bed & Breakfast" on a regular basis. Lately, I have started putting food outside of the back door and we can watch them eating their birdseed when we are in the kitchen.
I think I mentioned on one thread that they were not impressed when i decided to lie out in the yard in the zero gravity recliner and sunbathe. However, with much squawking and fluttering they managed to get over that intrusion of their buffet space.
Now, however, we have laid the pool out and it is in the same place where I have been feeding these birds, and they are NOT happy with this at all ! They have been hopping around and trying to look under the ground cover tarp to find their dinners.
So, I am in the process of relocating the bird buffet to the front yard.
I put their food out there today and also scattered some on the driveway where they are sure to see the seeds and corn bits.
Once they find that, they will then see the rest of the seeds futher off of the driveway.
I am utilizing the "Hansel and Gretel" method of leading them to their new food area, so hopefully, it will be successful.
I don't want to have any kamikazi birds bombing me when I am out doing my water aerobics in the pool, That is for sure.

 

All of the corn and seeds are gone off of the driveway this morning, and I saw little birdies pecking around along side of the driveway where i put the food yesterday afternoon; so they are learning where the new dining area for birds is at.
Once some of them start eating there, all of the rest (who are sitting around in the trees , anyway) will see the ones that are eating, and then they will all soon be happily eating out front.
One thing that I like is that when they perch in the trees and shrubbery, they also fertilize it for me, so everything should grow even better once they help out with that part.
Today is a fitness center day, so while we are gone, I will put out more food in the driveway for them to eat.

 

Update on these hungry/angry birds.
We have stopped feeding them out back, and only put bird/squirrel food out front now. However, every morning, if it is not raining, we put out a dish of food for the dogs when we let them out for their first morning outing.
The birds discovered the dog food on the porch, and soon thought that it was their personal buffet, even when the dogs were right there beside the food.
The dogs will chase the squirrels, but they seem to ignore the birds, and as more and more birds learned about the Breakfast Buffet, they were cleaning up all of the dog food before the dogs even had much chance to have breakfast.
I have no problem with the birds and squirrels having something to eat, but on the other hand, I do not want all of the dog food going to them instead of the dogs.

Now, I put the food out, but only leave it a little while and as soon as the dogs come back inside, we remove the food dish. During the day, we repeat this process, putting the food out and then removing it as soon as the dogs come back inside again. In the late afternoon , around 4-5, the birds seem to quit coming around, and then we can leave the dog food outside until bedtime.

So, this morning, the birds were out there , squawking and fussing at each other (pretty sure that they were saying some “dirty words”) because there was no food. Maybe each bird thought the other birds had already eaten all of the dog food.
In any case, they were not a happy bunch out there !

 

I put food out for the birds and squirrels every morning, on our second-floor balcony, but I chase the pigeons away whenever they are there in volumes. There are four pigeons that have been here for years. I don't know how long pigeons live but it seems that it's been the same four of them for about ten years now. I don't mind them but, for whatever reason, every now and then they seem to invite their extended family, and we'll have thirty or forty of them at one time, and they're like flying cockroaches. They eat too much and they make a mess. Whenever our cats are upstairs, they enjoy slamming the window and that always scares them away. They used to do that to the squirrels but squirrels know about windows and will come right up to the window and get in the cat's face, and that insults them, I think.

 

I used to have tons of bird feeders out, and stopped when bear started to invade my trash cans. Funny, I had been feeding the birds out of multiple feeders for at least 5 years before the bears discovered my garbage.

I set up a heated birdbath for them (just warm enough to prevent freezing) but for all of the birds I had at my feeders (and there were constantly tons of them), I never saw a single one in the bath, nor did I ever see evidence of there presence there.

As Beth said, birds amaze me. They seem to be the most free of all the critters.

 

Preach it, Sister!

There is this one annoying sparrow and the noise it makes can hardly be called a "song." And you gotta wonder how effective the cacophony is if it's got to go on ad infinitum day after day after day. At some point, you go to Plan B. Go buy her flowers or worms or something...just please shut up.

 

It's amazing, isn't it?

The highest Decibels-per-Gram ratio than any other creature on the planet. You do have to give them credit for that.

I love reading stories of Native Americans living in concert with the critters, using them as cover and as alarms (either their noise or a lack thereof.)

 

Watch it.

ANTIFA, BLM, and migratory fowl are all Federally protected.