Stop, Thief!

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I have a thief in my neighborhood and I have no idea who it is, but it's got me spooked. I have a variety of birds that visit right outside my office window every day, hummingbirds, several kinds of finches, cardinals, sparrows and mourning doves. I splurged and spent $1-some on a small bag of seed at WalMart yesterday since I was out and they'd been hollering at me for the last day or so. I brought in the few groceries that needed to go into the fridge and cupboards and left the WalMart bag with the bird seed on the front porch to mess with later. I never did get around to filling the feeders last night, but I do remember seeing the bag on the porch not two feet from the front door when I locked up, and decided to just leave it there until morning. I went out this morning to check on my plants and noticed a WalMart bag on the grass next to the garbage can, so I picked it up and tossed it, thinking it was one that I had maybe on the back porch or under the trailer that some of my plants are on or whatever. Never gave it another thought. Came in and checked email and such and heard the birds hollering by the window, which reminded me to go fill the feeders. Hmmmm ... No bag of bird seed on the front porch, and that has to be the WalMart bag that I had picked up off the ground, as it was only a few feet from the porch. No sign of the bag of bird seed, and not a single seed laying on the porch or anywhere nearby - it's GONE! I asked Tom if he had done something with it and he said no, so he and I walked around the whole property and still found no sign of the bag of seed. Whoever the thief is, he must be of good size to cart off the whole 3-lb bag of seed intact. So my little avian friends are still hungry and there is at least one of God's creatures out there somewhere that is having a feast at their expense.