I don't know what my neighbour on the other side of the fence is feeding the birds but I am seeing a lot of, what I call, less desirable birds; house finches and starlings, are aggressive with smaller birds, like my favourite goldfinches, and they also leave large splats of poop down my fence and over my deck. I come home some days to find the birdbath almost empty and I know there has been a riot in the yard during the afternoon and I have to hose poop off the deck.
Today this starling, at least I think it is a starling, collided with a goldfinch who was coming to eat niger seed from my feeder, he scared the goldfinch off, grabbed a flower from my basket and ate it while standing on the fence. When the starling flew off, the goldfinch returned for a dainty snack. My neighbour is away for the weekend but she has left lots of seed in her feeders for the big bully birds.
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