Cute Tee Shirt

[Joel Merrill]

This is from a catalog I got in the mail.

Joel

[Cecil Wallace]

Right out there in our back yard.
I wonder if he is wanted "dead or alive"?
(I had better not comment any further... might be some "tree rat" lovers out there.)
:basic05

[Gina Stevenson]

Right out there in our back yard.
I wonder if he is wanted "dead or alive"?
(I had better not comment any further... might be some "tree rat" lovers out there.)
:basic05

oops! you commented just enough to already cause us to wonder if you'd "assist" their being found "dead" rather than alive, Cee Dubya?

[Cecil Wallace]

oops! you commented just enough to already cause us to wonder if you'd "assist" their being found "dead" rather than alive, Cee Dubya?

No comment on that one.
I'm staying out of trouble.
:)

[Joel Merrill]

I wouldn't mind feeding them if they didn't empty the feeder every time they came. I bought an expensive bird feeder that was supposed to be squirrel proof. It just took them a couple minutes to learn how to eat out of it anyway. They would hook their back claws on the back edge of the roof and hang down and scoop seeds out from above.

So I glued some thumb tacks on the roof of it. That didn't bother them.

Then I pruned my rose bushes and stapled some of the thorny branches to the post. They just bit them off.

Next I tried building a ledge on the post under it that stuck out a foot all the way around it. They climbed up the post and jumped to the edge of the ledge.

So I attached to slick Masonite around the ledge hanging down 10 inches. Then they ran along the power line to the house which is 25 feet up and over about 6 feet from the feeder and jumped from the wire to the feeder.

Then I put wire mesh all around the feeder. That worked :basic03 The small birds can get in and eat and they knock enough seeds on the ground for the large birds, squirrels and rabbits to eat. It doesn't look very nice but it works very well.

Joel :fav18

[Dennis M. Scott]

It doesn't look very nice but it works very well.

Joel :fav18

It looks empty now to me. :basic02

I've been told that cardinals are ground feeders and won't come to a feeder, but they do ours. Can birds that big access yours?

[Joel Merrill]

It looks empty now to me. :basic02

I've been told that cardinals are ground feeders and won't come to a feeder, but they do ours. Can birds that big access yours?
It's full now but the black oil sunflower seeds are hard to see. I had a strip of masking tape along the back inside so I could see the seed level. It finally came off. I'm thinking about painting the inside white. We have cardinals in the area but they are too big to get in the feeder. We have blue jays too and they chase the small birds away. That is another thing I like about this feeder. The small birds can get in and the big bully birds have to eat on the ground.

Joel :)

[Cecil Wallace]

It looks empty now to me. :basic02

I've been told that cardinals are ground feeders and won't come to a feeder, but they do ours. Can birds that big access yours? While cardinals do feed on the ground, they will readily take to bird feeders.
It seems that the younger ones that come to my feeders do eat mostly on the ground, but I have at least a dozen cardinals that come to my 6 feeders on a regular basis.
The blue jays do come to the feeders, but they don't stay very long, so it is not a problem. My biggest problem with the blue jays is that they tend to "hog" the suet stations. They can clean out the homemade suet very quickly. It is gonna be too hot to have the suet out very much longer.

Joel, the best way to keep squirrels out of the feeders is to mount a feeder on an metal pipe and put a baffle on the pipe. I'll go take a pic and show you what I'm talking about in a separate post.

[Cecil Wallace]

Joel, the best way to keep squirrels out of the feeders is to mount a feeder on an metal pipe and put a baffle on the pipe. I'll go take a pic and show you what I'm talking about in a separate post.


This is the baffle that I bought at Wild Birds Unlimited. It looks like a piece of stove pipe with a cap on one end. The cap has a hole in it so that when a clamp is put on the metal pole, it will slide down over the pole and is held in place by the clamp.
A flange attached to the bottom of the feeder allows the threaded pipe to be screwed on. No squirrel nor raccoon has ever scaled this feeder. Of course, the feeder has to be place at least 8 feet from anything because a squirrel can jump that far. They can also jump down from overhead structures like tree limbs, etc.

The baffle can be made from a cheap piece of stove pipe if a cap is attached to it and a hole cut in the cap so that it will fit over the pipe.

Sounds like a good project for someone like you.

[Gina Stevenson]

It looks empty now to me. :basic02

I've been told that cardinals are ground feeders and won't come to a feeder, but they do ours. Can birds that big access yours?

Yeah, cardinals surely do ... the one bird picture I've taken so far ... this aftenroon ... was of the cardinal that likes to hang out there; now the "Mrs." seems to eat off the ground, while "Mr." flies up and sits on the feeder. Wonder why ... is she being "submissive" to him ... interesting phenomenon, anyway ....................

[Joel Merrill]

Joel, the best way to keep squirrels out of the feeders is to mount a feeder on an metal pipe and put a baffle on the pipe. I'll go take a pic and show you what I'm talking about in a separate post.


I know but our clothes line post is just outside our kitchen window so we can sit in the kitchen or dining room and watch the birds. Even if it was steel, they would still be able to jump down from our power line. This works good enough for us.

Thanks, Joel :)