This little farm story starts with a Christmas gift a few years ago:
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| One Christmas I got a cute sunflower-seed bird-feeder in the shape of a snowman from my daughter. I hung it on a tree by the driveway to feed the winter birds. |
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| That next summer, up pops a magnificent volunteer sunflower in my horse-hitch flower bed, close to where the bird feeder hung |
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| One day after the sunflower matured and went to seed (sometime in July), I noticed a little goldfinch absorbed in eating the sunflower's seeds. I was able to get close enough to take this photo. |
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| A few weeks later, the seeds were all gone! |
So fast forward to this summer of 2015:
