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Foiled by an Immature Brown Squirrel

Immature brown squirrel does acrobatics to eat my birdfeed. Get fat already.

Immature brown squirrel does acrobatics to eat my birdfeed. Get fat already.

I feel I get along well with nature, but I draw the line at my birdfeeder. You see, it’s a ‘birdfeeder’, not a squirrel or wildlife feeder. When I see that squirrels are getting my feed, I think of a way to outsmart them. This worked for a month until yesterday, when we found an immature brown squirrel doing amazing acrobatics to get at my feed. I’ll have to think of something new.

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Squirrel Acrobatics

Squirrel hangs upside down to eat birdseed

Squirrel hangs upside down to eat birdseed


A neighbour has a couple of birdfeeders that are always stocked with birdseed. I always see local squirrels hang upside down in order to eat the birdseed, dropping excess seeds to the ground for the birds.

___There are many squirrels that use this feeding station, jumping from the neighbour’s roof to nearby tree branches, slowly shimmy backwards down the birdfeeder and hang by their hind legs. This allows them to use both hands to eat at their leisure. Maybe only young squirrels are able to feed this way.

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