This bird feeder is squirrel-proof, the feed store owner told me, due to its ingenious design. Nowhere for the little critters to get a hold.
So I brought it home, optimistically filled it with seed, and hung it up.
It took my squirrels less than a day to figure out how to un-proof it.
Returning home in the evening to a near-empty feeder, I doubted that the birds could have eaten that much so soon.
As I watched, the culprit appeared--looking decidedly more portly than the day before--to finish off the last bit of seed.
I realize I could wire it so the feeder hangs lower and farther beyond their stretch, but for the moment it makes me kind of proud that I have squirrels with superior problem-solving abilities.
[First posted: June 24, 2014]
