A sassy squirrel struck a pose for Cutetropolis reader Susan, who had her camera at the ready to capture the miniature model in the act of plundering her backyard bird seed:
I took these photos of a happy squirrel who discovered the bird seed we had left on the fire pit cover and seemed to think we’d put it there just for her. Then she stretched out between the fire pit and a chair, in what one of my friends called “extreme planking.”
Squirrel is doing stretches in preparation for entering the NASA Engineer Nut Retrieval Olympics.
“Way I see it, those birds are plundering my squirrel seed.”
Can’t argue with that…
For me, the scandal part is how much seed a sqwerl can go through. I can’t afford to keep feeding them, when it’s meant for the birds. I do have a fairly good sqwerl proof bird feeder but they eat a lot of seed out of my platform feeder and hanging seed cake. And yes, they’re cute, so I can’t be too upset.
That little vixen. I broadcast some seed for everybody but have a bird feeder that squirrels can’t invade. However, the birds do their own broadcasting, so there’s always something on the ground for whoever comes by. I have stopped major feeding for the summer, but my birdbath gets a LOT of use! I fill it several times a day, have had a hawk and a hairy woodpecker in it.
It makes me really happy to watch birds bathing in a bird bath. My mother had one and after she died my sister took it to her house and the birds there use it a lot. It’s often a social event for them.
I just put a big plant dish on the ground with a rock and a ramp (a piece of tile, rough side up or they slide) for the smaller birds. That way everybody gets a drink, squirrels, rabbits, birds, whoever happens by.