Battle of the Bird Feeder

The squirrels have been going crazy trying to get into our bird feeder this winter. The other day one of them did actually get the three small clamps off the cover and he was sitting there chowing down on the birdseed. I chased him away and went down to the basement looking for a better clamp. I did find a couple of large c-clamps and brought one up to attach to the bird feeder. That squirrel sat in the tree watching me mess with his lunch. The new c-clamp is now working good to keep the squirrels out of the birdseed.

There were not many black walnut dropping from our trees this fall. That's how the cycle goes sometimes. Only one of our trees had the usual amount of nuts this year and that means the squirrels are hungry this winter.

They really have been trying hard to get the birdseed from our bird feeder and the neighbor's too. It's kind of entertaining watching them try to compete with the birds for the seed but we put the seed out there for the birds... not the squirrels.