Man, I am losing it. Dumped cat food in a bird feeder and seed in a cat pan. Cat sniffed and looked up at me.     "You know you have alzheimer's if ..."

The bigger birds -- doves, curve-billed thrashers -- will eat cat food. And they will get low into danger looking for scraps at the cart feeder.

Couple of years ago I bought some cheap cat food at Gebos -- $16 for 40 lbs -- and found the cats would not eat it.    So I put it out for birds;  they finished it.   Thrashers relished it.   I would put some cat food in amongst the seed except that the odor of the cat food I buy will draw cats and they will climb up to any feeder they can reach, spilling feed and water.