**I Want To Feed The Birds But...**

When I get my video camera I promise I will do some nature videoing for you from my part of the world...okay, it's just California but as I say about my home..."you get a perfectly normal animal and give it some of the water from our well and they go a bit 'odd'!!!" I could keep you rolling on the floor for hours laughing until you ache at the escapades of our domesticated animals...and that isn't to even talk about the wild animals that drink out of the water pot that I have outside for the outside cats...and the wild critters. I love all the wild critters we have but am really partial to the chipmunks and tree squirrels. We had one a while back that couldn't climb a tree to save his life! He would race for the tree and run head first into it. If he did manage to get to one of the lower branches suddenly he would lose his footing and be hanging onto the bottom part of the branch like a possum. I convinced the neighbor to park his golf cart under the tree because the cart had a top on it and the squirrel could land on the top and not get hurt. The raccoons are great too. We had one that would show up about 4 p.m. and sit and watch tv until we went to bed. We would fix him a dinner plate and he would sit and eat and watch tv. Every once in awhile he would be really transfixed by something on the screen and he would feel around for the next morsel...and nine times out of ten he would grab a foot, stuff it in his mouth and bite the daylights out of it!!! We'd be watching him more than the tv and of course we got such a laugh out of watching him. Before anyone gets upset about our feeding junk to the raccoon, we kept raw fruit and veggies just for him. Also we caught fish out of the lake and would also cut that up for him. Twice a month he would get dessert, his favorite goodies. A half a doughnut and a small scoop of ice cream. I have found more solace and fun in watching the animals than watching tv. Last year I would get to feed one of the deer by hand. She was sooo sweet and would reach through the fence with her nose and give my hand a "kiss" when we were finished with the food. I made her special breads that didn't have the excessive salts and other bad ingredients...she loved it. I also stocked up on carrots, corn, and alfalfa pellets for her too. Unfortunately she left one day and didn't return. She was an older deer so it is possible that she passed away. Anyhow, I will make a video of the area and all the critters we share our space with...when I get the camera.

I'm pretty sure the seed is fine for these birds. I'm going to give it a few days and see what happens. I sure hope they eventually come around. I know what you're talking about though and it makes me laugh...when word gets around. This happened at my daughters house. She didn't have any birds for the longest time under this one tree. Then all of a sudden there were tons of them and she can't keep enough food out, lol! I will try the bacon and bread. I'll get some bacon the next time I go shopping. I don't eat it, or at least it's far and in between when I do eat it, but for the birdies, I'll buy some. I really wish I could use a bird feeder but can't, darn it. I never let my cats outside either when I had them...I worried too much.

@Loverbear My life is centred round birds that visit us every single day. Yes. A video camera helps one capture images. I have several of them which I have uploaded on youtube. I have a link in my box below which you might like to watch.

Thanks sugar! I live in an apartment on the second floor...thus, the ledge. I wish I had my own little house because I KNOW I would get them to come around then, lol! I was just trying to get them to feed off my ledge here but it just isn't going to happen anymore.........how sad.

I don't know Wolfie, I'm puzzled. I see them in the summer hanging on the side of the building close to my window, but I'm wondering if you are right, and it's the window..great. I wish I could try a bird feeder but can't secure it to the ledge. Right now I'd be glad to see a squirrel, haha, just something. When I had my cats I never let them outside. I was too afraid they would get hit by a car or get killed by a bigger cat or dog. But I don't have any at this time so I thought the birds would come around. I'm really sad now.

Yes, everyone here just about told me the same thing. I don't think my windows are the type of windows you're talking about. They are just white metal and there is only one upper window and one lower window. They are not double windows as in some of the older homes or apartments. So I'm not sure what you're talking about as far as feeders that fit within the window unless it's for those type of windows. I checked all the feeders and even birdhouses but there was nothing I could use as that would have been ideal.

Oh how I would love it if they were starring into the house looking for their next meal. How funny is that one! I'd sure have the camera ready too, lol! And of course, I'd have to upload them here and share.

I'm on the second floor here and on a side street. There is no specific time that the birds come around. I hardly ever see them now that it's winter and cold out. Today it's raining all day and I haven't seen one. I just bought a big bag and I really don't want to buy nothing else until this is gone. Thanks though for trying..I appreciate it.

Sorry, my computer is too slow to watch a video on youtube, but thanks anyways! A few people here already told me it will take a few days. It's not really in a heap but is spread on in a pile. My ledge is only so big and I want to give them room to land. I do not stand by the window and watch for them at all. I just go to check the seed to see if they have come to eat. I wouldn't stand there and scare them off, that would defeat my purpose.

Typo - Please read as 'It will take time......'

This is one of the several videos I have created on birds that visit Solitaire. Hope you will like watching it. Do keep your speakers on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ttv5AEXV2I Birds come in groups - as they say, birds of a feather flock together!

I wish I had a yard because that would be much more enjoyable. And, for sure I'd have a birdbath for them to play in. I would also have a bird feeder, but this is the best I can do in an apartment. At least I'm trying, lol!

Thanks but they would knock the bird feeder over if they landed on it. I have no way to secure it to the ledge. I thought long and hard on this one and even looked around for something I could set on the ledge, but there's nothing that would be heavy enough.