Comments | 98: Close Encounters of the Bird Kind

Close Encounters of the Bird Kind

Dec 05, 2011 11:05

This last Saturday my beloved and I went walking in Kensington Metropark. Among the footpaths there is one called the Chickadee Trail, where the wee birds will feed from your hand. We were barely a few feet along the trail when we noticed the bare trees held a great many perching birds. Reaching into the bags of seed we had brought with us, we each ( Read more... )

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kayre December 5 2011, 17:09:23 UTC

Wow, I'm jealous-- I'd so love to do that! Thanks for sharing!

98 December 5 2011, 20:20:47 UTC

I hope you can some day. It was magical. I am wondering if with sufficient patience I could get the birds in our backyard to hand feed. I suspect having the various feeders around would remove some of their incentive to do so. I wish I knew how they became so ready to hand feed in this particular park.

These folks had an even more amazing time with sandhill cranes feeding from hand. I think I might be too wary to attempt that.