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[telophase]

And what's this bird?








CAT bird!

Also, here's a blue jay's butt.



You may notice that the feeders don't appear to be in quite the same position--we replaced the pole that held them and got longer arms in order to discourage the squirrels, which could eat half a feeder's worth of seed in a couple of days. So they're not as visible to the camera. Ah well; it's the birds that land on the windowsill that are the coolest to look at anyway.

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[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

If you really want to discourage the squirrels, get a stovepipe baffle for the pole, and put the feeder at least 10' from anything they can jump from. The baffle alone can be helpful, though, if you can't get the distance.

Bonus hilarity watching the squirrels climb up into the baffle and stop, for a few days anyway...

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Our yard is so small there's no space 10' from anything they can jump from! We haven't seen any squirrels yet with the new setup--we'll probably graduate to the baffle once they figure this out.

[viridian5.livejournal.com]

We once hung our bird feeder out far, far, far away from everything on a thin wire. The squirrels shimmied along the wire, then hung from it by their feet and grabbed the feed from the feeder with their front paws. Those little bastards are unstoppable.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

At my parents' old house, Dad rigged up the feeders on wire with pulleys, mostly to be able to position the feeder in front of a window and so we could reel it in to the porch and fill it, since the house was built into a hill and the feeders were too high to reach. He got one of those squirrelproof ones with the big umbrella over the top, and that worked out well, because they just transferred their attention to the other one, a more traditional model that they fed from by grabbing the top with their hind feet and hanging upside down to eat. :)

We considered one of those horse head squirrel feeders, where you hang it near the ground and put food inside so the squirrels stand on the ground and reach up inside and just look ridiculous, but given the neighborhood's rat problems, we tabled that notion.