Last night I was outside- I had some left over mixed nuts from Christmas that I thought maybe the birds might like. No sooner did I toss out a handfull on the patio, did all sorts of birds swoop down and eat these things. There were a couple of cardinals, a bunch of sparrows, and then a blue jay came and scared them all away. They came back once the jay was gone, and finished the rest of the nuts.

WHat struck me was just how observant these birds were. You hear them up in the trees, going about their business etc. But it was almost instantaneously that they saw the nuts and swarmed on them.

SO the moral of the story, I guess, if there is one, is that when you think you are alone outside, you are not. Birds are watching you. Think I'll rent that Hitchcock film tonight........