Mom (aka Granny Gadget) sent this new bird feeder to me. I finally had the chance to fill it and put it up yesterday. Since the ground is frozen I couldn’t rig a pole for it, so I opted to hang it from the trunk of a young tree. The birds love it. It look just a day for the squirrels to discover it too.
We don’t see many gray squirrels – it’s usually the little red ones who take up residence on the porch. Gidget alerted me to this guy this morning. You know what’s going through his mind.
He knew we were watching him, but that didn’t slow him down.
He worked it, hanging on as best he could on the slippery feeder.
We watched for a few minutes before opening the window to shoo him away.
Not five minutes later, wave two of the assault began. No new feeder goes untested!
Even though they are seed gluttons ‘ya just gotta love the little buggars’!!! They know how to survive and entertain. 🙂
Love that first squirrel photo–it looks like he is saying
‘don’t even think about chasing me away–I want my share, too”!!!!
Great photos and nice looking feeder–
have fun with it–
enjoy, di
Yeah, I think your pole would be better! And a baffle. It took me years but I finally have a squirrel proof setup.
We don’t have squirrels where I live (on the prairie) so I think they look very cute trying to steal seeds from your feeder, but I know they are pests. Sometimes I have the same troubles with raccoons.
We have a pole and a baffle but squirrels still an issues . I would love to see a picture of your set up or a more detailed description maybe with measurements of how far from the ground the baffle is and how tall the pole? Maybe how big around the pole any type of metal.. my squirrels use the pole and baffle for climbing gym !!