I’m not sure if anyone visiting here is interested or not in my up-shot stuff, but just in case, I’m posting it anyway… :)

I left the camera running from Thursday to Saturday, and nothing much happened… until Saturday morning. I finally got an up-shot angle on tape of something that was interested in my hanging bag feeder - a waxwing! This year is a first for them here - I’ve seen them once or twice before on the ground version of my Backyard Bag Feeder Project, but very infrequently… Very cool! You can see all of the waxwing visits in the first video below, along with a few shots of squirrels yawning (especially the first shot of the video)…


Waxwing getting peanut from Backyard Bag Feeder Project mat, version 2.0, 11-11-06
A waxwing getting a nut from the bag feeder!

As I was getting ready to shut everything down (it’s supposed to rain here again…), I looked out of the window and saw the bag was tilted sideways on the tree - “I didn’t put it that way!” - and there was a squirrel, finally curious enough about the feeder to take a nut (a few, actually) out of the hanging version! I also got some video Sunday morning (I recorded it from a window in the rain) of another squirrel getting some nuts out of the feeder, but I don’t have that video edited yet and quite honestly don’t really feel like working with it now… It took Chris’s squirrels a week to figure out the initial version of his Pillow Feeder, and it’s taken my squirrels a week to figure out this version of my Feeder project… The 2nd video at the bottom is a few shots of the squirrel getting some nuts out of the bag.


My first hanging squirrel getting a nut!, 11-11-06
My first hanging squirrel getting a nut!

I wonder if they’ll stay interested… I noticed about an hour ago as I was setting things up again that the squirrel feeder that the bag feeder was hanging on is extremely loose from it’s base, so I moved the feeder bag back over to the birdfeeder area. I wonder if they’ll be as interested in the new place - it’s now hanging where the food is more visable, my camera’s sitting on the ground (completely covered up - it’s supposed to rain again, but I’m taking a chance) and I have nuts sticking out from the bag to see if they’ll venture over that way.

 
icon for podpress  BBFP 11-11-06 Upshot, Birds, 450Kbps Version [4:44m]: Play Now | Play in Popup

 
icon for podpress  BBFP 11-11-06 Upshot, Squirrels, 450Kbps Version [3:32m]: Play Now | Play in Popup