Winter feeding

I have been religiously putting food out for the wild birds all through the last week of heavy snow.

For eight days, my tree has been infested with little feathered dinosaurs. You couldn't move for them.

Now, first day of the thaw...........VOOOM! They're gone. I have been left for dead. I feel so used.

PLUS I've been pooped on twice in the past week. No, not in my garden, that would make sense, just walking through town. It doesn't help when people tell you that it's supposed to be lucky.