Fri 27 Oct 2006
… or perhaps I should say, not in the bag any more. The bag feeder can be said to be thoroughly compromised now.
A triumphant squirrel stands on top of a totally wrecked and emptied feeder
Activity really took off yesterday, probably as a result of me tempting them with a whole bag of unshelled peanuts between the top and bottom layers of bagging. No way was even the dumbest squirrel going to miss that, and they didn’t …
Getting stuck in there
The following clip features about four and a half minutes of thievery. Where this guy is stacking away all his nuts is a mystery, I assume he had to dig a pretty big hole!
This post, as well as the pictures and video from it are © 2006 Chris Osborne, originally published on The Backyard Voyeur. The “Pillow Feeder” is his feeder project based on my (Zach Glenwright’s) Backyard Bag Feeder Project…
In The Bag, 10-27-06 [4:34m]:
October 27th, 2006 at 4:02 pm
Very cool… I’ll post my video later (I got all of the video of the nuts being taken out from the morning - I’m not sure how long that is exactly, because I haven’t had time to edit it yet, but I think I caught about 12 minutes of activity from the AM sessions.) - I didn’t know about the other ones on the lower layer, that’s why I stopped rolling! Did you catch any video of the squirrels trying to get the nuts on the lower level? That I recorded no footage of…
October 27th, 2006 at 4:10 pm
If you mean inside the second bag, there were no nuts there; that bag was just to protect the padding. Ultimately it got chewed through as well, but there was nothing under it to interest a squirrel unless he liked the taste of Nu-Foam.
October 27th, 2006 at 4:41 pm
Ah! I just wondered if you taped them investigating (well, more like destroying) the second bag at all, to showcase that part of the day’s events… I wonder why they go so far as to destroy the whole thing sometimes - I’ve seen a squirrel work for 20 minutes at seemingly nothing at the very, very bottom of my projects only to find a nut I even forgot that I stuck down that far!