Thanks to Chris Osborne of The Backyard Voyeur trying his own version of my project, I took a tip from his version - the elevated project. I’ve never really considered doing a Backyard Bag Feeder mat hanging in the air, but he tried it and it worked for him, so I figured I’d try my hand at it too! Not only do I now have a verticially hanging feeder instead of the ground-level feeder, I also (because of that setup) now have a up-shot technique with the camera - since the Feeder mat is above ground-level, I can put the camera on an angle and get an elevated shot of the squirrels checking it out! During this test, however, I didn’t get any squirrel activity on the project itself, but I got all kinds of squirrel activity above - including a squirrel scuffle about 5 minutes into the video! If you don’t want to sit through all 5 minutes of the feed to see that, I also included a smaller video of just the fight at the bottom of this post.

 

 BBFP 11-9-06 Upshot, 450Kbps Version [7:25m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

 

 BBFP 11-9-06 Squirrel Scuffle, 450Kbps Version [0:21m]: Play Now | Play in Popup