Doing My Part
My downstairs neighbor commissioned his son to build a bird feeder for our little tree outside the condo. He put together this metal cylinder with screws for the birds to sit on. The thing looks like it was assembled by the military, complete with big screws holding the bottom plate to the cylinder and a removable metal cap with a hook.
It holds an entire bag of bird seed, and fortunately, the tree has grown a bit over the last few years, because the strong limbs are necessary to hold the weight of the steel and seed, plus whatever lucky animals happen to find their lunch under our tree.
So far, we haven't seen many birds...
So far, we haven't seen many birds...
...but we are doing our part to keep the local squirrels fat and happy. The little bastards ate through the whole thing in less than a week, and notice how the bottom makes a nice resting place for his furry ass.
Comments
He did a good job it appears. You're lucky you don't have bears there. When we lived in Arkansas the brown bears would come down and eat the birds food.
Tell the kid to put some corn on a stick and the squirrels will leave the seed alone then.
Some days I am reminded of how country I really am.
I like corn.
Of course, we tried switching types of bird seed, but the birds snubbed their noses too. They will sift through the mixed seed and eat all the sunflower seeds and leave the rest. *sigh*
i have to say, though - that's one righteous bird feeder!