Cutetropolis reader Squiddy wanted to feed birds, but a squirrel had its own ideas: “I just put out a new bird feeder in my backyard, so I could encourage finches as entertainment for my kitty. Looks like someone else discovered it before the birds did! Shamelessly eating the bird seed while I watched. I may lose a lot of birdseed this way, but it seems worth it.”
This is my feeder. Get your own feeder.
My mom used to sit a ways away from the feeder in a lawn chair with a book and a nerf gun. It didn’t work too well, but it was entertaining.
I call mine Hoover.
We had to start using weight sensitive, caged bird feeders, to keep the squirrels from emptying the feeders so quickly. They’re cute and fun to watch but refilling it got too expensive and the cute squirrels kept the birds from coming around.
I got a feeder for my mother that kept squirrels from eating the seeds by closing the apertures when the weight on the platform was more than a bird’s. However, there was a squirrel nest in a hollow dead part of the large tree the feeder hung on. For years, twice a week when I visited my Mom, I would deliver seeds to the foot of the tree for the squirrels. It always gave me pleasure to imagine the squirrels telling other squirrels in the neighborhood that they got a food delivery to their door twice a week.
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He’s a squird! And he will probably provide even more entertainment for the kitty.