MicheleFla
Member
I am a bird lover since I was a little girl. I have always been a backyard birder too and I would say the past seven year, since we moved to Tampa, near the river, backyard birding has become my absolute passion.
After both of my basset hounds died from old age, my backyard birds really became wild pets to me.
I have many feeders, some exclusively for specific types, like worm feeders for Carolina wrens, peanut feeders for my chickadees and titmice and thistle feeders for my winter goldfinch visitors that come back year after year., and on and on and on.
My neighbors aren't interested in feeding birds but they often comment on how my yard sounds so lovely with all of the many different bird songs.
But now we are moving about 30 minutes north of Tampa and I have to say goodbye to my beautiful birds.
I knew it would be hard but I had no idea how hard. I watch my cardinals and wrens, blue jays and woodpeckers, year after year raise their young in the bird houses and shrubs I've provided for them and watch them eat from the feeders and plants that I planted solely for their benefit.
Everyone tells me the same thing, "You'll have new birds at your new house." This is true but I will miss MY birds. Birds have personalities and watching and caring for them day in and day out has formed a very strong bond.
I really don't know how to say goodbye to them.
I'll be living here for close to another month and I've read to cut back on their food little by little, so they aren't too alarmed when I leave. This is very very difficult.
I'm learning the more you love, the more it hurts to say goodbye. Even with wildlife.
After both of my basset hounds died from old age, my backyard birds really became wild pets to me.
I have many feeders, some exclusively for specific types, like worm feeders for Carolina wrens, peanut feeders for my chickadees and titmice and thistle feeders for my winter goldfinch visitors that come back year after year., and on and on and on.
My neighbors aren't interested in feeding birds but they often comment on how my yard sounds so lovely with all of the many different bird songs.
But now we are moving about 30 minutes north of Tampa and I have to say goodbye to my beautiful birds.
I knew it would be hard but I had no idea how hard. I watch my cardinals and wrens, blue jays and woodpeckers, year after year raise their young in the bird houses and shrubs I've provided for them and watch them eat from the feeders and plants that I planted solely for their benefit.
Everyone tells me the same thing, "You'll have new birds at your new house." This is true but I will miss MY birds. Birds have personalities and watching and caring for them day in and day out has formed a very strong bond.
I really don't know how to say goodbye to them.
I'll be living here for close to another month and I've read to cut back on their food little by little, so they aren't too alarmed when I leave. This is very very difficult.
I'm learning the more you love, the more it hurts to say goodbye. Even with wildlife.
