2007-01-23

911. Dashed Hope

a gray jay
finds a sunflower shell...
empty feeder

9 comments:

Masago said...

a gray jay
finds a sunflower shell...
empty feeder

Link with 910: Early

[Sometimes in life our hopes are raised and then quickly dashed. I'm sure this gray jay won't have to call 911 and will be able to forage at another non-empty feeder...and, of course, there is always nature's buffet.]

Pamela said...

I spoil my birds... I buy chips and hearts (keeps the hubby from griping about sunflowers growing in the yard and shells on the patio)

I don't take disappointment well, so I really feel for that gray jay.

Borut said...

I was more lucky. I found the inner meaning of your haiku in ... the comment section. How generous!:)Sometimes it's just our inability...

Pat Paulk said...

My birds come pecking on the window when the feeders run out. Is that domestication??

polona said...

i think they know sooner or later the feeder will fill again :)
well done!

Masago said...

Pamela: What are "chips & hearts"? We had a bird feeder a few years back but the birds tended to spread seeds on the lawn which attracted squirrels and mice.

Borut: Ouch. :-)

Pat: They have you well trained.

Polona: Yeah, especially on cold days (you have k(no)w idea what that is, right?). Thanks.

J. Andrew Lockhart said...

this one feels cold -- I'm so ready for spring!

Pamela said...

chips and hearts are sunflower seeds that are hulled... and are probably the pieces that are broken up that can't be sold to humans because they aren't pretty anymore.

They also fall out of the feeders, but they don't germinate and grow, and the ground birds like the junco's and some of the sparros slick them up pretty good.

and the niger(thistle)seeds are irradiated so they don't grow either.

Masago said...

Pamela: Thank you for this additional info!