lol. I've got a pair of squirrels that get positively acrobatic trying to get from the deck to the birdfeeders. They like to hang upside down on the feeder, holding on with their back legs and eating with their front. Silly squirrels.
I'm always amused, too, by the birds that line up on the railing of the deck, just waiting their turn while the squirrels eat. Silly birds.
::nodding:: The hind-leg routine sounds very familiar. I see it a lot. What I don't get are the blue jays who don't chase the squirrels off. The smaller birds, sure, but the blue jays and the woodpecker? ::shaking head::
Since the feeder outside my computer room window is butting up against a wood fence, I get squirrels. Mostly well-behaved squirrels -- they sit on the fence eat off one side while the birds fight for landing space on the other side. However, on one windy day the squirrel lost his balance and ended up clinging with all four paws to the bottom of the feeder as it swayed back and forth. Laughed myself silly. Got a cold stare from squirrel once he regained the fence.
Someone I know went at war with the squirrels--she didn't object, exactly, to the squirrels getting some food, just to them getting so much the birds were deprived--and she eventually solved this by getting assorted hot pepper feeds. Appearently it's harmless and tasteless to the birds, and the first time the squirrel encounter it and mindlessly stuff their faces is really entertaining.
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I'm always amused, too, by the birds that line up on the railing of the deck, just waiting their turn while the squirrels eat. Silly birds.
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