Research by bird experts has shown that there are greater than fifty million people in the United States who have bird feeders in their garden. Bird feeding is a national pastime for several people. For others bird feeding is an educational process and also a means to experience and appreciate another aspect of life which is often ignored. It's the greatest twittering experience. Bird feeding creates a "gateway effect" to protect the environment according to a source at the Audubon Society. Some individuals want to increase their awareness of the beauty that surrounds them by performing simple tasks which have an enormous influence on the well being of all life. Bird feeding is one of those simple tasks which bring about an eco-friendly lifestyle. Bird lovers plant a lot more shrubs with seeds which birds consume and they support stronger environmental laws which protect all wildlife. Bird feeders become bird lovers that share something in order to experience the unique gift of bond with some other form of consciousness
Studies show that feeding birds is a learning experience not just for the children that know the name of every bird which visits the feeder, but for the adults that ignore the world of birds that exists and flourishes around them. The incredible diversity of the bird population and also their sometime mysterious behavior demonstrates without words how we live our lives. Birds are continually doing something which enriches the experience of life and all anyone needs to do is watch birds gather around a feeder to see how similar we're to them. Bird watchers discover that their strange behavior isn't a mystery at all. Birds in their own way choose to experience their reality and that choice mimics how few people choose to experience the reality they live daily.
Birds don't rely on feeders to live. Some birds never visit a feeder. All birds find a natural source of food or they move on, just as we do. Research shows that bird feeders provide less than a fifth of a bird's nutritional needs, so they don't go hungry when the feeder is empty. One behavior that is blatantly obvious in life around the bird feeder is birds don't judge or discriminate. The squirrels and other creatures which share the food are just doing what we all do; they're eating to produce energy to experience more of our selected reality. It seems the only ones that care about who eats and who doesn't are the humans who are still learning the lesson of unity.