nature preserve updates

I installed some new wildlife accessories tonight…

A corn cob holder for squirrels:

 
squirrel corn feeder
 

squirrel corn feeder

And a bird bath pan. Had to do some slight mods to get this thing to hang properly.

 
bird bath
 

bird bath

Those poor animals don’t know who they’re messing with!

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  1. Posted December 14, 2005 at 11:05 pm | Permalink

    You’ll have yourself a zoo before you know it.

    One winter, I had a squirrel that would scratch on my back door and wait to be fed. He’d sit on his hind legs with his little front paws dangling and he’d beg for bird seed. (I was trying to feed the birds) It was really cute.

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  3. Lynda
    Posted December 15, 2005 at 4:25 am | Permalink

    I love it that you are really getting into the wildlife caretaker role! Yippee! Proud of you. And it is entertaining.

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  5. Posted December 15, 2005 at 7:13 am | Permalink

    That bird bath is great. All the birds are going to be fighting for a spot! :-)

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  7. Posted December 15, 2005 at 7:19 am | Permalink

    Rob, since you have a real tree, after Christmas you can set it on the back porch. Roll pine cones in peanut butter and bird seed and hang from the tree with twine. That’s what I did the year I made friends with the mooching squirrel. I had half a dozen squirrels in my tree trying to loosen those pine cones so they could steal them!

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  9. Posted December 15, 2005 at 9:02 am | Permalink

    That birdbath looks a little too much like a urinal…good thing you’re not a heavy drinker Rob! ;)

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  11. Karen
    Posted December 15, 2005 at 9:58 am | Permalink

    :lol: funny, Carl. . .you’re right. Rob, you will never look at that the same way again!

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  13. Posted December 15, 2005 at 10:30 am | Permalink

    It will be fun to see how Eb will react!

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  15. Posted December 15, 2005 at 11:12 am | Permalink

    Oh, how funny, Carl. I’m not sure I can look at it as a birdbath now!

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  17. Hojun4
    Posted December 16, 2005 at 1:10 am | Permalink

    Looks like you’ve got yourself a regular animal playground there.

    When it freezes, the birds can ice-skate… ;)

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  19. Lynda
    Posted December 16, 2005 at 4:31 am | Permalink

    Good heavens, just ignore the comment about the birdbath! It looks like what it is supposed to be..a birdbath. And loved the idea Jules about setting the tree outside after Christmas. I did that one year. You can put all sorts of goodies in it. And the birds love to rest in it too.

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  1. By ElectroLund » the wild (patio) kingdom on March 14, 2006 at 12:14 am

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