At the moment, no.
But the GrizzCub (three years old!) got an assemble-it-yourself birdfeeder kit (ages five and up but I think I’ll be helping him assemble it) for Christmas.
I think it’ll be hanging from a shepherd’s hook in our backyard by the weekend.
We get wild turkeys (not the whiskey) in our back yard, so when I see them, I often toss out a few handfuls of bird seed for them to peck at. Pretty awesome to see the development of the flock over the past few years, when we started with just a couple of birds, and got to watch the poulets (chicks) grow into adult birds.
Now if I could only find them in an area that was legal to hunt in (my backyard is, but only barely so, and the wife won’t let me get one with my bow and arrow)
Outside the rehab unit of my hospital, the local gardening club provides bird-feeders and hummingbird- (what? Juicers?:D)
Anyway, during the warm months here in Georgia, we wheel or escort our residents outside and just watch them as they watch the birds.
We also have our fair share of robber-squirrels, and the language our female residents use when they see one robbing a bird-feeder would make a seasoned street-person blush! 
Anyway, I have acquired a whole new appreciation for birding as a result, and plan to do more in the Spring on the bike trail we have here in Dallas.
Thanks
Q
Antiochus , thank you for the links- I had the Barred Owl confused with the Great Horned owl-
if I could have my wish my kingfisher would learn his Austrailian cousin’s song-
At any rate, it is one-ish in the AM in my area- and I have driven the cat to near madness with the recordings- my work here is done and I can rest peacefully while the cat runs from dark window to dark window planning her assault-
I mainly got into feeding birds to keep my cats entertained. My cats stay indoors, so maybe it is more like torture for them, but it is fun. I have 5 feeders and a heated birdbath. The squirrels come too, but since the cats like watching them, I don’t mind. They knock a lot of the seeds out of the feeders, but the Juncos are ground feeders, so they eat them. It attracts rabbits, too. Plenty of seed for everyone.
I caught a slightly wounded Black-Headed Grosbeak near my
feeder.I was afraid a crow or cat would eat him.I nursed him for a couple of days and fed him tasty meal worms. A few days later I let him go in a meadow with thick underbrush. I reached into his cage to get him and he gave me one very healthy thankyou bite before I released him.
Psalex. I’m not at all thrilled with the links I gave you. I’m sure there’s a much better one that bailed me out in a hurry, when one night, around 10 o’clock I heard the hoot of an owl over the sound of the TV in our den. Totally surprised and delighted, I muted the audio, and with my wife, listened. Off to iur left, somewhere out there, the owl repeated the call a few times. Tnen, from the far right, we heard the answering call from its mate. Lower in tone, and well to our right.
I went to a website and the calls were so distinctive I could identify them as male and female Great Horned Owls. It was a magic moment and it hasn’t happened again, darn it.
When I retrieve that site I’ll pass it along to you.
Oh Psalex! Go to
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~tony/birds/links.html
It is a gold mine! For openers, scroll down to the 4th line beneath NORTH AMERICA, and click on The eNature birdAudio link. It’s loaded with songs and calls.
Enjoy!
(My sincere apologies for all the typos in the previous post.)
When you get to the site (see previous post), and you’ve clicked on
the pink(?) birdAudio link.
See the “Perching Birds” heading? Go about 3/4 of the way down it and click on “Mockingbirds…”
In the ensuing window, see the Northern Mockingbird link, second from bottom? Click on it.
You will probably have to set the audio format. Not hard. Click first on Replay, then click the various formats until you hear the call.
I promise all this is worth the trouble. The Mockingbird’s song is so enchanting it’ll bring tears to your eyes. My wife just ran through three replays, and afterwards, insisted I send the URL to her sister in Baltimore.
What makes it so wonderful is you can hear the song again and again, ad infinitum.
Once - this past summer - I was driving home with the top down on a gorgeous day, and had just turned up my street, when I heard a bird song in a tree belonging to the people in the very first house on the right.
Something flashed in my head that this was a mockingbird, so I pulled over and stopped. Don’t know what prompted the thought because I’d never heard the call in my life!! But that’s what it was. Long, highly complex, ineffably beautiful. And it sang the whole thing again.
What a moment!!!
It also hurt a little because I knew it was unlikely I’d hear it again.
When I cook one of my famous fry-ups (most mornings… must cut down in the New Year), I throw out the bacon fat onto the small patch of green next to the door that passes as a garden. Also stale bread, often.
There are a lot of Magpies up here and they seem to like it.
Antiochus - that IS a wonderful site- I love my mockingbirds (though they dive-bomb the kitties all summer long). They are master samplers- very often I will hear a familiar song, but off by one or two notes, only to find a smart-aleck mocker testing his recall ability.
A few years ago I worked at a shop just outside of a small neighborhood. On a sunny day in early spring a mockingbird was sitting on a powerline performing a dead on canary imitation. During lunch I strolled the neighborhood until I found a sweet older lady sunning her parakeets on the front porch- they were happy to be outside and chattering loudly enough to drown out traffic. Mockingbird was a quick study- I told the parakeets’ owner what I had heard and she explained that she had just put the parakeets out for the first time an hour before, and was a little concerned that a large greyish bird with a cocked tail seemed a little too interested in her pets. He had been lighting on the shrubbery around her porch. She was sitting on her swing with a flyswatter just in case mockingbird came too close- she was delighted to hear that he was just adding a new beat to his repertoire.
The local mockingbird gals must have been verrry impressed.