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Birdlife - feeding wild birds

What's the matter with us! I see a new article - 'The Best Wild Bird Foods for your Garden' What I wonder is why we can't let wild birds be wild and fend for themselves - why do we have this need to make them into 'pets' and drag them into our economic system so that they become as reliant on supermarket produce as we are!


Created By on 03/05/2019

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Little3 Original Poster
3rd May 2019 13:10:41
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Thanks for voting!
Just now, a Mallard Mum cut across the canal towpath in front of me with her brood - at least ten chicks.

I always feel humbled by ducks on the canal - they demand so little from the world!
Little3 Original Poster
3rd May 2019 13:15:56
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Thanks for voting!
When I look at our supermarket food offerings or think of our concern with fancy recipes, my mind guess back to watching a thrush dragging a snail to and fro in the dirt to make it more palatable.

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