Mom loves me to open the front door, so she can look out the glass door from her recliner!

It gives her something else to see rather than the 4 walls here.

I'm so glad I changed out that storm door last spring, she's really enjoying the solid glass one now.

Even though we live in the deep south (Mobile, AL), its not always warm enough for her to get on the back porch. I can't wait till it's warm enough so I can try to get her outside daily, as I know sitting inside all the time isn't good for her. She did that enough in Tx from 2002-2007.

Least right now, she's enjoying that solid glass storm door now!

Now, to pick up some bird seeds.

I put a feeder as close as I could get without putting it under the carport, or hanging in the middle of the sidewalk for someone to hit their head on.

I also got the hand truck while she was asleep, and moved all her impatients out front. Wow, those concrete planters are heavy full! She likes the view more and more.

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pigeons, omg....make a mess on my car.

When I lived in the city, a lifetime or so ago, we had a chokeberry tree at the end of the driveway. For those of you unfamiliar, chokeberries have clusters of rather large magenta-colored berries at the tip of every twig and birds LOVE 'em!

So y'all gettin' a good picture of what my powder blue with white top BRAND NEW pick'em up looked like during chokeberry season?

I dug that sucker up and replanted it in the empty lot behind our house.

Today, we decided on flowers for the small front porch on one side of the handi-cap ramp I built.

PIcked up a rectangular planter thats about 30" long, and got different color impatients for it.

Occurred to me, unless she goes on the back porch she won't see the ones out there. And dang, I put 2 planters of impatients for her. And they are in large cement planters, that would take a few very strong men to move with all the dirt and flowers in them now.

So I will work on that spot on the porch, and under the carport with flowers.

Most of her view is actually the right side of my very small front porch and the car, lol.

I really not sure about feeding birds where my car is parked. The whole idea of the carport was to keep bird chit off it, lol.

Might move on of the feeders to the front yard hanging in the tree. Last time I fed birds, I had this one bird, that would throw all the seeds on the ground digging through, looking for the sunflower seeds. I was like "you ungreatful a$$hole!!!".

I'll come up with something but tomorrow supposed to rain again.

And yea, we do have pigeons and squirrels. I don't mind the squirrels so bad, but pigeons, omg....make a mess on my car.

You don't even need a fancy feeder - just a plastic tray with seeds in it is fine. I have an old hypertufa project that was supposed to come out way cooler than it did and it cracked when I unmolded it, and since it's pretty flat, I set it on a flowerpot, throw some sunflower seeds on it and we gotta birdfeeder. I have also used old plastic garbage can lids (inverted) for the same thing, but they aren't very attractive...

I hang Mom's birdfeeders from the open soffits of my house so the feeders are pretty close to the window. I nailed a pulley way up there and ran clothesline through it to the feeder so I could hoist it up & down from the ground to fill.

Feeding the birds is a passion. And they are demanding once they find a pigeon (um, sucker). I keep feeders going at Mom's (She would hurt me if I took them down) the whole feathered community is on welfare at Mom's.

It takes a while to draw them in, and unless absolutely necessary, I would avoid one on the window because of the "mess", but they do bring them up close and personal. Black oil sunflower seed is almost universal in it's appeal. All the seed eaters love it. For wrenns and various woodpecker types, nuthatches, the ones that rely on insects, you will need to put out a suet cake. But really, even if you just get messy pigeons eating crumbs on the sidewalk, I say go for it... An easy cheap bird bath/waterer (always helpful to bring in the birds) is to simply take a big flower pot, turn it upside down and put the saucer on top to hold water. Put a good sized rock in it to weight it down.

If I recall, vision is an issue for your Mom, same as mine. I wish you luck, and urge you to keep trying.. Like MB, I find that if you feed them, and have patience, They Will Come.

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I don't know if I can get a feeder where she can see it or not. Mostly her view is partially the carport, and where the side walk is.

I used to have a feeder that attached to the window itself by suction cups. I'm not certain where it came from; it was a gift, as I recall.

I don't know if I can get a feeder where she can see it or not. Mostly her view is partially the carport, and where the side walk is.

Might get caught trying though. Worth a shot to see her smile seeing a "sunny day" outside. Something she never got to see in Tx, as they kept the blinds closed tight.

Try some black oil sunflower seeds (can get a 40# bag for a decent price at the Feed & Seed store). We have tons of birds! I often talk on the telephone out on my porch and folks are always telling me about the birds they hear! As soon as the hummers arrive, they will buzz me to clean and refill their feeders...

Wild birds are not only multicolored flying pigs, they are tyrants, too!!

Seems when they can't get out, Mom's buddy, they still love to look out!

Mom skipped her nap today, looking out the door! I crumbled up some corn bread and put it where she could see it in the yard, in hopes birds would come. No birds yet. There's always spring and summer.

My mom has a window directly across from her bed. I have birdfeeders hanging so that she can see them eating sunflower seeds like multi-colored flying pigs! The SMALLEST bits of LIFE mean so much to folks who can't much participate any longer.