Birds Are Slobs!

This season during a freezing cold spell, I am shocked to see a carpet of seed trash all over the deck. I mean everywhere! No nook or cranny is safe from being strewn and stashed with bird seed. What slobs, I'm thinking. There are as many pieces of sunflower hulls as bird tracks. 

Birds peck and hop away to crack the hull and eat the seed inside. In doing so, the seed trash scatters where they scatter. Spreading compostable materials is what birds do. Mother Nature, I'm sure is pleased with the services birds contribute. Using a container or bird feeder helps, but it doesn't stop the scattering.

For a few days I didn't put out new birdseed. I want the avians to finish whatever is left in the mess they made. In that time the deck was tidied up. The wind does help blow the lighter pieces away.

Male cardinal in Winter