i am obsessed. i feed the birds every other day and i am getting to know the habits of the cardinals that eat from the plate on my porch. the largest one is very vocal and will let me know if there is no food. he will also chase away any smaller bird at "his" dish. there is one female and at least one smaller male who will share the dish with the other birds. there is a variety of smaller birds, i am not sure which kinds they are. if i had to guess, some are finches but the others i am not sure on. i may get a dish of niger thistle for those guys. if i fail to feed them they will clean up all of the scattered food off the porch and out of the sandbox. they seem to enjoy the sand box- the other day i saw some of the smaller birds tossing sand around in there. crazy. maybe i will get a small dish for water....