My battle with the squirrels continues. I bought a new birdfeeder, a mesh cylinder I fill with nuts for woodpeckers and flickers. But the squirrels are determined to break in. They’ve bent back the edge of the wire mesh, untied two of the three knots holding it up, and chewed half-way through the rope. I’ve now threaded a plastic lid on the rope above the feeder, and that seems to have stopped them, for now.
Their attention has returned, instead, to the metal basket holding suet. Yesterday I spotted a squirrel sitting on the tree branch, holding the basket, having hauled it up by its rope. I yelled at the squirrel and he dropped it and ran away, leaving the basket hanging open, empty.
Still, the birds are happy. We have a regular flow of sparrows, redpolls, chickadees, woodpeckers, pigeons, magpies, and flickers, depending on which feeder is full. Bunnies have left droppings underneath, so they must be scavenging, and the squirrels are ever present.
It helps me miss my garden less, buried in huge piles of snow.
Maureen
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