I wish I had a photo of the squirrel that climbed into one of my suet
feeders. Most of the squirrels may think they are too much work but
once he was inside - it was all his. When I walked over to discuss the
rules about squirrels not climbing into the suet feeder, he got out the
cage pretty fast. I can't consider even those "Squirrel proof"

Cricket Webb
Cle Elum
birdnerd at inlandwireless.com


On 7/17/12 1:29 PM, Christine Southwick wrote:
> Downy Woodpeckers, Red-breasted Nuthatches, and Townsend's Warblers
> also regularly go into those cages. I like the cages because the
> squirrels usually think that they are too much work. Grin....
> Now if my other feeder setups would slow the squirrels down...
>
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> Christine Southwick
> N Seattle/Shoreline
> clsouthwick at q.com
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> On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, drsybert at northtown.org wrote:
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>> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:19:36 +0000
>> From: drsybert at northtown.org
>> To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
>> Subject: [Tweeters] PIX - one smart Chickadee
>> Loved the picture! I have a similar suet feeder that is surrounded by a
>> small cage made of the same material as the feeder with the same size
>> mesh. The chickadees (chestnut backed and black capped, both) go inside
>> it regularly. The have to do a little twist to get out, but they make
>> it easily.
>>
>> I hung this feeder because the big birds dominate the suet feeders
>> otherwise, but I forgot about those long-billed woodpeckers who reach
>> right through the cage to the suet until the chunk gets too small. The
>> flickers, in particular, are daily visitors! Which is good: I love
>> watching the flickers, and I am so glad to find something that will keep
>> them breeding on my five acres.
>>
>> Darlene
>> Cinebar
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