Feeding the birds
My mother used to feed bread to some of the birds, and I’ve been feeding them since my mother died in January. If I don’t, some of them sit on the railing outside the kitchen door and wait for me. The birds that eat the bits of bread are mostly house sparrows and blue jays, occasionally cardinals and titmice. The house sparrows that we have in North America are not a native species. They are all descended from a few birds from England who were released in New York in 1850. They are now found in the 48 states, southern Canada, and northern Mexico.
