Oh, Correction
There is a brown-bodied bird with a dark head, known as the Hawaiian Crow, and they are the most prevalent species of birds.
There are the Java Sparrows, and they are gray and black feathered birds. Not a prevalent species, but they do frequent my feeders.
There are the pigeons, big bodied and mostly gray feathered, speckled at times. They are too big for the bird feeders to hold them steady, as they would crazedly flap their wings to maintain some hold, but to no avail. So, to accommodate their kind (hefty) they feed off the droppings that would fall off the bird feeder, down below off the ground.
There are the green feathered birds with white circles around their eyes. They are called the Japanese White Eyes. These birds, and the Hawaiian Crow, do not eat freebies as do the Java Sparrows, and pigeons, and ever so oft, the other large species, the Cardinal. Freebies meaning from hand-to-mouth, store bought variety. Actually, they prefer living off the land as they were meant to be. Since humans are an incidental or Interruptus Homo Sapiens.
One day I heard a rather strange tune, the bird feeder empty and not a feather in sight. Yet the medley went on and on. It almost sounded like a harp from heaven, or a new bird species arrived nearby. It now sounded like a wounded chirping. Fortunately, I was wrong ...
It was a flute ...
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