thekitchensinkbirdwatcher

This morning I added a handful of dried mealworms to the three-quarter coconut, scattered a few amongst the usual seed mix and was intrigued by the response of the various birds. A jackdaw given half a chance would hoover up anything within reach, whilst a blackbird appeared to collect a mixture of the dried worms and something that was wriggling from the rosebed before flying off. The robin was at the coconut before I was back into the house, but it was a male woodpecker which seemed mostly taken with it…although in fairness it seemed to be so ravenously hungry that by flying back and forth between the feeders, using its sharp beak to threaten interlopers, it managed to keep even the starlings off the cone peanut feeder, the coconut, the bird table and the wire fat ball all at the same time. It didn’t appear to be collecting food for nestlings…this was sheer need or greed.