Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site uwmacc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!uwvax!uwmacc!myers From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers) Newsgroups: net.rec.birds Subject: Fun with Feeders... Message-ID: <660@uwmacc.UUCP> Date: Sat, 12-Jan-85 10:40:53 EST Article-I.D.: uwmacc.660 Posted: Sat Jan 12 10:40:53 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 14-Jan-85 04:23:15 EST Distribution: net Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center Lines: 18 I live in a cozy, small home neighborhood in Madison, WI, a town of about 250,000. We've got a couple of feeders hanging from our clothesline pole, and we also scatter food on the ground and porch. Our most common customers are Slate Juncos and the ever popular House Sparrow. Other regulars are Cardinals, Black Capped Chickadees, and Pine Siskins. Irregulars are White Breasted Nuthatches, White Throated Sparrows, and American Tree Sparrows. Our biggest problem is fighting off the squirrels. The other day one of the little buggers actually ripped the plastic top off of one of the feeders. Whenever we manage to catch them, we have a sporting time by driving them off with salvoes from our trusty BB gun. Is there a less violent, more effective way to keep them from scaring off the birds? Apologies to Friends of the Squirrel.