Exceedingly Mundane

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If any of you have been reading closely on my blog lately, you might have noticed me lamenting the fact that my new bird feeder does not seem to be attracting any birds! Go figure – I had an el-cheapo 4 dollar plastic one from Walmart that they would empty in a day. We had all kinds of birds, tons of cardinals, bluebirds, sparrows, finches and probably a lot of other birds that I have no idea what they are. So, since we’re enjoying watching them eat from the bird feeder constantly, I decided that we ought to splurge and buy a really nice bird feeder. Which we did (pic Here), but the bigger birds like the cardinals won’t come near it. I don’t know if they haven’t gotten used to it, or they are just too big for it. The perches on this feeder are smaller.

Anyway, it’s been almost a week now since we hung the bird feeder. I watch quite a bit to see if any birds larger than a sparrow or finch are on it, which they haven’t been. Then, today, a squirrel decided to spend the better part of 2 hours hanging out near the bird feeder.

Now, granted – Gail had told me to be sure to get a squirrel proof feeder, which we did. He didn’t really seem interested in getting on the feeder. Noooo, he was interested in all the stuff on the ground below the feeder. He spent a lot of time jumping from the deck railing to the ground under the feeder and shepherd’s hook. He rooted around for a bite, then would jump back to the deck railing to eat it. One time, he did get brave and jump from the deck railing to the side of the shepherd’s hook, then he scurried to the top. But, he seemed to realize he was on shaky ground, and he didn’t even try to jump down to the bird feeder.

Needless to say, one time, he must have sensed I was inside the den taking pictures of him through the window. For, he jumped up on the window sill and looked in at me. For some odd reason, I had my camera there, and ready, and so I snapped the picture above. I do believe it’s quite a good picture! Except that it would have been clearer if that window didn’t have a screen on it, but I think you get the general idea! I thought it was great, of course, but that’ s just me. It doesn’t take a lot to make me happy!

If you want to see a couple more pics I took of the squirrel, click the -more- link. 🙂

Here’s the squirrel digging around (under the birdfeeder) in my purple verbena for nuts or seeds:

Squirrel on the deck railing, eating a nut or seed he scavenged from underneath the feeder:

And, my favorite – the one on the front page, Mr Squirrel on the window sill, looking in on me. If you look closely, you will even see that his little paws are on the screen, so he could lean in and look!! 😀