These little devils are so enormously entertaining, if you take the time to watch them. Almost as entertaining as children! They are masters at acrobatics, and can get into any bird feeder! When you think you have them stationed far enough away they cannot leap to them, the somehow manage to climb a slick metal pole to get to the arch and traverse across it to the feeder, and sometimes even open it from the top! Last summer I even had to go rescue one who got caught inside a tubular birdfeeder, and couldn’t get the top to go up, so he could again back out. I lifted the top for him, and he was out in a shot and gone in the blink of an eye.
This year, so far, they’ve managed to defeat every plan we put into effect to protect the birdfeed and hang most precariously from the feeders, often dropping from good height!
But the Camelias….now why would a squirrel rip a Camelia from the bush and tear it up, leaving a trail of rosy flower petals all over the side yard? At first, I had no clue who or what was doing that. But yesterday, as Clover and I returned from our walk, there was a pesky squirrel with a Camelia in his mouth! He fled, of course, as fast as he could go to the woods! Who knew? I had no idea squirrels would take my flowers!
You learn something new every day!
Already, the crocuses have come and gone, and forsythia is blooming up and down the road, although mine is just not doing anything! The foxes get fed right under the unhealthy forsythia, and they think they can hide in them. Perhaps, but sometimes I can see them quite well.