Our yard is full of squirrels every single day. There is constant motion of these gray, furry critters. They scamper across the grass, run up trees, and jump at quite a height from one fir tree branch to another.
They help themselves to our bird feeders. After all, that is a relatively easy source of food for them. They sit atop the feeders, hang upside down from them, and do just about any type of acrobatics to get to those sunflower seeds. Mainly they pig out.
Recently we have had a troublesome squirrel who has found the stash of sunflower seeds from which we fill our feeders. Squirrels aren’t stupid. And even though our stash of seed is in a large lidded plastic bin, THE squirrel is boldly hungry enough to throw off the lid, hop inside, and help himself (or herself) to all the seed one can imagine.
Okay, so I put the lid on tighter. Now that squirrel won’t get the seed.
WRONG.
THE squirrel chews on the plastic, determined to get to the mother load. We are in the midst of a (minor) battle.
I don’t object to the squirrels eating along with the birds, but this is getting a bit destructive. We don’t even try to squirrel-proof our feeders so you’d think the little guys would be grateful…
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