LPF week 19 writeoff
Apr. 12th, 2019 01:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hwangoThe bird feeder is on fire again.
We used to have a serious problem with squirrels stealing food out of the feeder and scaring off the birds. We tried hanging it in a bunch of different places, and then tried attaching weird things to make it hard for the squirrels to climb it or hang on to it, but apparently the neighborhood squirrels are ninja acrobats or something. Eventually, we decided to try one of those ultra-high frequency devices.
They chewed through the wires.
The only thing left we could think of was to fill the feeder with food the squirrels won't want. It means we're attracting rather different birds than we'd originally hoped for, but we were out of ideas. And it's not all bad.
Phoenixes do have lovely plumage.
We used to have a serious problem with squirrels stealing food out of the feeder and scaring off the birds. We tried hanging it in a bunch of different places, and then tried attaching weird things to make it hard for the squirrels to climb it or hang on to it, but apparently the neighborhood squirrels are ninja acrobats or something. Eventually, we decided to try one of those ultra-high frequency devices.
They chewed through the wires.
The only thing left we could think of was to fill the feeder with food the squirrels won't want. It means we're attracting rather different birds than we'd originally hoped for, but we were out of ideas. And it's not all bad.
Phoenixes do have lovely plumage.
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Date: 2019-04-12 08:06 pm (UTC)And as always, I did not see that twist coming.
I was expecting the fire to be the result of vengeance against the squirrels when all other methods had failed. :O
It cost us some 5K to get those little monsters out of the space between the floors of our house. Rodents! Still a plague, even in this modern age...
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Date: 2019-04-13 04:59 am (UTC)And I'm sorry to hear about your plague of squirrels! Its amazing how good wildlife is at demolishing the trappings of civilization. In a contest between pretty much any substance and the local raccoons, I'd bet on the raccoons.
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