Entertaining reading this thread. I'll add a couple of thoughts.
When we lived in Madison WI Kathy worked at a "bird" store. There were
two kinds of customers: Those who fought the squirrels, and those who
succumbed. The ones who fought lead a more stressful life.....
One of the professors at the Wildlife Ecology department fought. He had
a feeder he hung away from most everything.....but the squirrels learned
to run down the railing of his deck and take that supersquirrel leap
onto the feeder. Scott had enough. He ran a fishing line from his
seat at the kitchen table, out the window, across the deck, and onto
the bottom of the feeder. Said squirrel would charge down the
railing, leap into the air, and Scott would yank the fishing line, which
swung the feeder away from the incoming squirrel, who would then find
itself airborne with no place to land and only gravity to compete
with. Scott chuckled and chuckled over his victory. Of course then
he had to go to work for the day and well, we all know what happens when
we aren't around to see.......
Cheers
Dave Lauten
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