New Bird Feeder

Husband built a new bird feeder for our small feathered friends and it's a smashing success. I truly admire his skill and perseverance, given the fairly primitive tools for wood processing we have at home. The feeder was made of 1 yard wood planks bought from Mr.Bricolage and a piece of flooring we had at home.

The birds that frequent us are mostly great tits (Parus major) and a few blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus). In winter we get finches, but in the summer it's only the tits.

Some of them nib at the seeds right inside the feeder, sheltered from the rain,

but most grab a seed and fly to the nearby trees to eat it in private.