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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.

Comments

[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...

[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.