MACS wrote:I bought a wooden squirrel feeder with a glass jar and filled it with peanuts. Scattered some on the ground around the tree, too. I attached it to a tree just beyond my back fence. After a few days with no visitors, a squirrel finally showed up.
He ate up the ones on the ground and is now working on the ones in the feeder. I hear blue jays all the time, but rarely see them. Surprised they haven't shown up to get some peanuts.
Tank doesn't like it. If he goes in the back yard, the squirrel disappears. Not sure why... he can't get to it. It's beyond the fence and about 6' off the ground.
My parents seem to feed all the birds and squirrels and rabbits in the neighborhood. One of my items on the "to do" list when I was there last week was to clean out the old bird feeders and replenish them with new feed. My Dad was there to manage the situation. (He's pretty frail so he just sat on the deck and guided me on what to do).
Reinstalled Qty 8 bird feeders and filled them up with feed (Dad buys bird food at quantities that literally fill 2 trash cans, and a you use a scoop made from old milk jugs).
He used to buy dried corn on the cob things and had various squirrel feeders but gave up on that because they would eat too much. So we are down to "only" 8 bird feeders.
Lots of suburban wild life in their back yard. Was sitting on their deck one day having a smoke and was dived bombed by a Chickadee. The deck is right next to the garage where they have a few bird houses mounted to the exterior wall. One of the houses has a nest with some babies in them. If your quiet you can hear the little baby chirps when mom comes to feed them. Kinda cool.
Another time sitting on the deck, having a smoke minding my own business... I hear a BZZZZZZ... A humming bird flew up to me 6 inches in front of my face (no lie), looked at me eye to eye, hoovered for a few seconds then buzzed away. That was the closest I've ever been to a humming bird. It was pretty cool.
There is a family of rabbits that made a home under the deck of next door neighbor's house. Neighbors don't seem to mind. My parents don't seem to mind. There is a chain link fence between the neighbor's back yard and my parent's back yard. However there is a hole in the fence at ground level. I'm pretty sure that the rabbits didn't chew through some steal fencing to make that hole. I think it was some animal lover(s) that cut a hole in the fence.
Suburban human life in tune with suburban wildlife
