birds and more birds 2

They are greedy , what sort are they?

I was going to say that their eyes must be bigger than their bellies, but on looking at them their eyes are huge. Lucky birds who come to your garden pd.

they are called 'silver eyes' and yes they do look as if their eyes are bigger than their bellys.
they flock in the winter and pair off in spring.
they normally produce 2 broods each year
so next yer i may have to double the food heaps

With the ring of white feathers around their eyes they really do make them look bigger!

I did a search for them & found this interesting page on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvereye

they have now consumed some 4 kg of food so guess they wont need any more for a while
occasionally a larger bird will drop in and take a couple of pecks and fly away and then there is a rush of tiny birds to get back into a feast