Many experts consider breakfast the most important meal of the day. This bird feeder, found on my morning walk, should start the day off right to a family.
My neighborhood is home to numerous birds of a variety of likes and dislikes when it comes to meals. But they are well fed. If they don’t find seeds to their liking in this feeder, they can fly a couple dozen yards to another. While not every household maintains a feeder, one out of three or four caters to our feathered friends.
Do you feed the birds? Watch and identify the species? Only in winter? Year-round?
In the 1850’s, in fictional Elm Ridge, Illinois, the residents did not hang out bird feeders. However, with fields and gardens to forage among, the non-migrating avian managed to eat throughout the winter months. A little grain always spilled. A way into the barn could be found.
A sweet romance set in this time and place is Stitching a Dream. Click on the link to learn more about this story of a single mother seamstress and her new neighbor. https://amzn.to/3VwoeFh
