Spent my whole adult life saying I didn’t give a shit about birds. Yeah.
When I lived in Chicago 20 years ago, and their bodies were littering the streets from West Nile virus, I noticed. I noticed the lack of birds in the sky. Seems no one else did.
I now have 3 different types of feeders and a birdhouse.
Got my childhood treasures back, uh, there’s a lot of antique bird figurines. And I used to collect owls.
Saw a pileated woodpecker for the first time at camp in December. NEAT! Got a couple of feeders and started learning to make suet.
Spent my whole adult life saying I didn’t give a shit about birds. Yeah.
But I’m not really into birds.
Those pileated woodpeckers are so big! Like the size of a chicken, they’re so cool.