My fiancee has had ME/CFS for a while now, and because she could not, for the longest time, look at books/screens/… we put a feeding tray in front of her window so she could watch all the birds going by. Here are some images we took over the last half-year.

Hawfinch stretching to look into the room:

Blue Tits and Great Tits come by the most. Sometimes we get Marsh Tits:

A woodpecker:

  • Björn@swg-empire.deEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Nice!

    I’m a sufferer myself. Feel free to join [email protected] if you haven’t already.

    My beds going to be closer to my window soon as well. But I fear we’d be feeding the local cats with such a setup.

  • Zwiebel@feddit.orgEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Would it be possible for you to to get a bird feeder where they can’t poop in the food? 🥹👉👈

      • Zwiebel@feddit.orgEnglish
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        7 days ago

        No. This “classic” design is specifically known to spread desease. Someone posted a study a while ago that links them to a population decline of certain songbirds in the UK.

        Modern feeders force the bird to sit next to the food not in it

        • me_jumper@infosec.pubOPEnglish
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          6 days ago

          Thanks for the heads up, I did not know that.

          Could you link the study if you can find it? I could not find it after a quick search.

          I would really like to know how different factors affect this. I think, without knowing, we kinda did some things that might mitigate this to a degree: We normally have very little food in the feeder. It typically is empty after a day or two. Once the feeder is nearly empty we clear the remaining kernels, stuff they don’t like as much (and I guess, the poop with it). Would love to know if this actually helps and if they discussed other factors in the paper.

          Edit: Just seen the link posted (how did I miss that) and it does answer why my points don’t matter. Don’t use flat feeders ever.