Wed 29 Nov 2006
This is a somewhat longer clip than I normally post: 10 minutes of feeding captured over the course of about an hour this afternoon in video, rather than the webcams. It has almost everything - suspense, action, acrobatics, fight scene, romance … well OK, I lied about the last one; maybe in the sequel?
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…
Lots of Feeding Fun, 11-29-06 [10:20m]:
November 30th, 2006 at 7:37 am
Hehe… that’s the first time I’ve watched someone’s feed that long that I haven’t recorded myself -
Awesome! It’s very cool to see the entire environment around the Pillow Feeder and the yard (and it proves that more than one grey squirrel is interested in the whole hanging feeder idea!) Nice quality for handheld video too - it’s really hard to shoot video handheld for that long and maintain a shake-free shot - plus the video’s much better quality than the webcam’s video IMHO (of course, a camera should be better quality than a webcam :))
I stlll think it would be interesting to see if the squirrels would be as in to shelled peanuts instead of whole ones… they know where the food is, and they ravenously eat the birdseed, so it would be interesting to see if they would be as eager to get the half-nuts (I’m pretty sure they would, but…)
You should also still try the “recessed peanuts in the foam” idea too when you get a chance (and a piece of foam, of course…) - I’d try it here on my project, but the squirrels only seem to get one or 2 nuts out per day on my project, so I don’t think it would work here (at least for now, at this time of year, with these squirrels) - they’re not as ravenoous as yours are right now… maybe next Spring’s squirrels would be…
I have a shot or 2 I got yesterday at my vertical Feeder project also, but I’m too lazy right now to capture the vids and edit it together, so in due time…