I have a bird feeder and the birds coming to it are not particularly sophisticated. A few handsome birds watch from a distance and gather seeds that have fallen from the bird feeder onto the ground; birds such as goldfinches and chaffinches and yellow hammers.
The feeder itself is not particularly chic. It is a fence baton driven into the ground in the garden outside my window with a cheap plastic dish nailed onto the top. Naturally birdseed splashes everywhere and the feeder is now overshadowed by towering self-sown, self-germinated sunflowers.
Only two types of birds actually land and feed on the feeder itself: house sparrows and green finches. There are dozens of house sparrows and four green finches. The sparrows all mess in together; the more the merrier. A green finch feeds one at a time and drives off any other bird that attempts to share feeding time.
The sparrows flourish by sharing. The green finches are few and live solitary lonely selfish lives. There’s a moral hidden in there somewhere!
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