I remember my mom taking me to Wing Haven as a young girl to visit Mrs. Clarkson and watch her feed mealworms to the birds from her hand. That is such a vivid memory, and I would love nothing better than to be able to do the same with our birds here.
Various birds are already conditioned to my ringing of a bell and whistling. They will come to the platform feeder outside our sunporch where I put their mealworms every morning.
I have an adirondack chair positioned right behind the platform feeder where I am now sitting every morning when I call the birds to get them accustomed to me. This is my first step in my process to hand feeding... I hope!
