Anne Jackson wrote:
I do charity, but not excessively! :-)

So when the eggs hatch the parent birds that have come to rely on
your feeders for food find that there is none available...and there's
no fruit or seeds available until the autumn?

No, we do extend into spring for the sake of the young ones. A bit
dicey though because they're naturally naive with regard to our two fine
athletic cats! Another "difficulty" in spring is watching the
woodpeckers hog the feeders for their grossly fat young ones clinging to
the trunks of nearby trees, so that other birds find it difficult to get
a "look in"!

Eddy.