Cat Daddy’s Avian Apartheid is working: the larger birds have given up trying to eat from the bird feeder, and he could not be more delighted about this. His favourite visitors are two pairs of pretty goldfinches who come every day, multiple times.
During his Friday night Zoom call with his boozy pub mates (yes, they’re still doing it, even though they’re allowed to go to the actual pub now), one of the lads told him that you can buy finch-specific bird feed. I know. So Cat Daddy then bought a huge 863kg sack of it.
Now, of course, he is complaining that the goldfinches like the food too much, because he is having to refill the feeder more often than before. It’s quite surprising that four such tiny birds manage to chomp through so much food in such a short time but, if he makes the choice to cater for particular birds’ dietary requirements, he surely can’t be too shocked that they, erm, eat the food?
Anyway, the good news is that, despite the fact that the finches have caught Louis Catorze’s eye, he appears to make no attempt to catch them. He sits and stares intently from a distance, and that’s as far as it goes. And we are glad about this.
Catorze definitely sees himself as the apex predator. But he also knows that he can’t be arsed to do anything about it.
Glad that Catorze is not bothering the birds. And voce versa.
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For now! He has a habit of doing the opposite of whatever I post, within minutes of me posting it …
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Or he’s plotting.
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Nooooo.
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Glad he is leaving the birdies alone. Nigella for goldfinches I think isn’t it?
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I’ve no idea! It’s a mix of seeds of all sizes and colours. I’ll check later!
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I mean niger, rather than nigella!
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What a lovely photo! The roi’s chocolate undercoat is particularly striking.
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I like it when his rusty bits poke through!
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Birds can’t read. Other birds than goldfinches are also likely to empty Cat Daddy’s feeders, aren’t they?
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Yes, although it’s not often we see others at the feeder!
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Wow. That’s a lot of bird seed. Are you sure there are only four of them? Maybe they rotate
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We’ve seen all four at once, and Cat Daddy reckons a fifth has recently started coming!
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