Sat 11 Nov 2006
For my next iteration of the pillow feeder I got a couple of cardboard tubes to act as barriers, and put the peanuts in between the two tubes. And these tubes fitted tightly in the bag, too. Just for good measure I also ran some electical gaffer tape along the bottom of the bag to discourage any cheating from there. This is what the bag looked like …
So I went into the house, made a quick cup of coffee and went to look at the monitor. I was astonished to see that one of the tubes had already been pushed aside and there was a squirrel sitting leisurely eating one of my “protected” peanuts on top of the bag! So much for another clever scheme. Subsequently I’ve gone back out and reset the tubes but really don’t expect there to be any peanuts left by tomorrow. I admit it, I’m beaten.
This post, as well as the picture 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…
There goes another good idea, 11-11-06 [1:46m]:
November 12th, 2006 at 12:08 pm
Interesting idea… unfortunately it looks like it’s design has been hacked by the squirrels! - I watched this morning (I’ll put that up later) and they got to all the nuts again under the gaffer’s tape - it looked like it just fell off! Maybe duct tape would be more of a challenge? It would probably be more adhesive, but I’m pretty sure they’d figure it out…
I finally got some squirrels that are starting to figure out my Pillow Feeder-esque design yesterday! I’ll post more info on that later as well…