I left the Feeder mat and the camera out overnight on the 19th to see if anything else would chance the project during the day… and nothing did… but that all changed in the middle of the day! At around 3:30pm, the squirrels started to come — and this time, they were determined to get the nuts out of the bag! One of the more interesting shots of the day (there were many good shots!!) was the squirrel literally digging into the bag with it’s back claws to prop itself up to get a nut out of the top of the bag - one of the things I wanted to see if they would do on my vertical design (they’ve done it on Chris’s version of my project many times, even when it’s dangling in mid-air!) and they did! Very, very, very cool to see them working to get the nuts that way! I didn’t think to try the vertical design before Chris tried it, because I didn’t think the squirrels would be interested — even after I started to try it I didn’t think I would get anyone interested here, but the squirrels are proving me wrong, to the point of making the entire bag fall to the ground towards the end of the video! With the bag being on the ground though, it was a little too high compared to the camera’s height, so you don’t see as much of the squirrels working, but you can still see them!

 

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