I left the house on a beautiful sunny frosty morning and heard the cheerful chirping of sparrows. They ate viburnum berries. These berries are very bitter, but because of the frost they become sweet and a certain amount of alcohol appears in them. That's what the birds like. The sparrows became drunk and cheerful.



Friends, look how the sparrow has become fat. He ate a lot of berries. It seems to me that he just can't even take off from the branch.






The birds got very carried away eating berries, and even at the same time they got drunk, that they did not pay attention to me at all and let me very close to them.



It was a whole gang of sparrows. It seems to me that there were more than 10 of them.
I mean, the sparrows flew in almost every morning until they ate all the berries on the tree. It was last fall. There were almost no such beautiful frosty mornings this year. And there were not very many berries on this bush either. Sparrows this year ate almost all the berries in a couple of days.















What did I want to say? Oh, yes, I remember. The season of photographing birds at my feeder has begun. More precisely, on a tree that is located outside my window and there are several feeders on it. I need to wash the window again so that the photos are of good quality. And I also need to do additional pruning of branches on the tree so that they do not interfere with the photo shoot.
While there is a problem with buying sunflower seeds, which I usually feed the birds. I was at the market and it turned out that the seeds are not on sale. I was sold 8 kg at a price of almost $2 per kg. Last year I bought food cheaper. I also bought 10kg of sunflower seeds online at a price of $1.8 per kilogram with free shipping.
In the neighboring region, I saw a price of $0.8, but sellers do not deliver by mail. I could buy 200 kg.
I hope that the situation will improve and I will be able to buy bird food in the right quantity and at a low price.

@apnigrich