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| Grimescar Valley, Tuesday 22 Jan 2013 |
This is why I've spent most of this week at home. Very picturesque but roads are treacherous and the wildlife doesn't enjoy it much either. I have put out five different bird-feeders.  |
Around here, grey squirrels have brown patches. They are very acrobatic, the only bird feeders they can't extract food from are those like the one on the left in this photo, where the cage of peanuts or birdseed in enclosed inside another cage. Sadly this also puts off some birds.
This squirrel is feasting on fat balls, which most of the birds love too. There is usually a backbird or pigeon on the ground below the feder, picking up all the scraps which the squirrel drops. The smaller birds avoid the squirrels.
The robin can't perch on the hanging feeders, neither can the blackbirds, so I've attached a fat block to an antique wooden post, made of well weathered oak, which has supported my washing lines for thirty years and before that who knows how many other peoples laundry for n-years. Tumble dryers are for those with no sense of history!
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