Lots of birds at my birdfeeders! We love watching them fly in to eat close to the house where we can see their markings better!
Winter, spring, summer, fall, we will feed them one and all! Squirrels, chipmunks, bunnies…they all want to be there for the party too!
I have heard it said don’t get the birds used to coming to your place if you’re not going to be there over winter, otherwise they’ll starve expecting food and you’re not there!
Yesterday, as I was filling up the feeders again, (we had run out of birdseed and had to get more), I wondered about the above philosophy – if there was any truth to it – or if it was just an old wives tale.
Surely if there was no food at the Jones’ they would fly over to the Smith’s, and on the Hazelgroves’ place if they had none. These are not dumb birds out testing their luck finding food. God knew they needed food and would show them where to look.
If we went to the store and they were out of milk or eggs, we’d just go to another store, or find something else to eat. No starvation diet for us! There’s plenty to go around, we only need to look. Birds do the same thing.
Another comment is, ‘don’t feed birds average, might be moldy, unsterilized nuts and seed. It might make them sick’. Here again, God has given them proper sniffers and beaks to sort out the good from the bad and prevent them from ingesting unhealthy foodstuffs. (Really it’s us folks who need to use our sniffers and ‘beaks’ to sift out the healthy vs unhealthy food items in our storage bins.)
So rest at ease. Feed the birds if you please and don’t worry. They’re smart enough to fly on to better eating elsewhere.
Their GPS will lead them (God Provides for Sparrows)
You are better than a sparrow and God will provide for you too 🙂
Mrs. Goodfinder 