Maggie's Farm

I have five feeder poles - three, double feeders. Everyone of them is askew and crooked. A bear wandered out in late February and tore the place up.

For the squirrels, get a Slinky and hang it, pole inside, beneath the feeder. The Slinky will dangle down and frustrate the squirrels to death. It's really fun to watch.

The crows are my favorite because they're so mean and funny. One will plop in the birdbath and refuse to get out. His buddies will caw ferociously but he'll just fluff his black-blue feathers and flick some water on them. Hummingbirds are the meanest, though. Rude little birds

We have concatenations of starlings here that are a real problem. Skookumchuk's story about the crows made me think of it. They'll fly in flocks of up to five-thousand and roost in an area until someone goes nuts and calls the cops. The police bring out a cassette tape entitled: "Starling in Distress". You put it in an outside player and turn the volume up and the gang of 5K sits there and listens as a single starling suffers immensely and maybe dies after 30 minutes. The birds say 'screw this' and fly away and don't come back. Nice compassionate birds. :)

I have so many bunnies. Gray Kitty from next door skulked underneath a pine tree and held two little bunnies in abeyance like statues for what seemed like an hour. I finally let my Yorkie out to break up the stand-off. That was pretty funny with little animals running helter skelter. No one was hurt.
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