Alicealice44 wrote:I was at my parents house eating dinner at the pick-nick table when a rufous humming bird visited the spot where his feeder was meant to be hanging. He had first visited the apple tree and the flowering current and some other plants, but he seemed really disappointed that there was NO feeder.
After we finished eating and went inside he continued to visit the missing feeder, but then flew nearer to the window as if to say get on it, get my food back in its place.
The food is back
The same happened to us some years ago. We had a feeder on the wall right next to our kitchen window. We thought the weather was so warm that we could stop the feeding of sunflower seeds, and so we did. But.. suddenly we heard tapping on the window. It was angry Bullfinches who flew near the window, and they knocked on the window with their beaks. We was very surprised and ashamed, said we was VERY SORRY, and drove immediately to the store and bought more seeds. Then the Bullfinches calmed down. A week later we tried to stop the feeding again, and now the Bullfinches accepted. It was a very special experience. So every spring I check the food supply for Finches very carefully before I stopp the feeding season, I can not take the risk of being unpoplar..