Birds and Deer

We've found the birds and deer have an interesting relationship here on the mountain.  We fill the bird feeder on the rear deck with a typical mix of bird food. This consists of sunflower seeds, nuts and bits of fruit.

The Stellar's Jays will knock the sunflower seeds aside and to the ground below to get at the nuts and bits of fruit.  The deer have figured out  they can forage on the large stash of spilled sunflower seed and frequent the area under the deck for their evening snack.

The deer have no fear of our watching them so it makes for fun nature watching...

Somehow the word gets out and the herd then arives

The Finches  have discovered the bird seed and show up in groups of a hundred or so and consume everything. Pretty interesting to watch.

We keep the seed in the galvanized pail to make it easy to refill the feeder