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:

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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.