Raiding your kitchen cupboard for seeds.

If the small birds round you way are like the locals here, you will need to cover the pods when ripening. You are likely to have competitors for any small seeds. The flowers on sunflowers only need to fade for a day or 2 before they are covered with blue tits.One year I had a row of corriander ripening when we went away for a week. There was none left when we returned. Even quinoa which is supposed to taste bad for them is not immune. I saved onion seeds last year and covered them for the last few weeks as some started to disappear.