At 05:21 PM 6/24/97 -0700, you wrote:
>Just thought I would share some of the merry mix-ups of my attempts to feed
the birds. I put my first ever bird feeder on my deck a few months ago.
After a week or two I was getting regular visits from a gang of House
Sparrows and some Chickadees. Thia was all fine until that darn squirrel
found it. He would eat or take all of the seeds within a few hours.


Ah, Dale, that reminds me of some of my battles with the cute littl' devils!
We had a mother squirrel who brought her two offspring to our sunflower
feeder. They had a field day! The babies were small enough to fit down
inside and they spent the day scarfing seeds and terrorizing unsuspecting
birds who landed on the feeder unaware the squirrels were inside!

Peggi
Ben & Peggi Rodgers
Aptos, CA (near Santa Cruz 122 W, 37 N)
USA
woodduck at cruzio.com


"A bird does not sing because it has an answer,
It sings because it has a song"