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| | Welcome to our newest member, sdmcc | | Modified Bird Feeders Feeders with modifications that will hopefully make them easier for birds to use.  | Posted 17-03-2012 at 03:41 PM by jaelen Updated 17-03-2012 at 10:28 PM by jaelen I got a hanging bird table last year- and almost immediately had to give up using it because of the squirrels... what they didn't get, the starlings did. In about 5 minutes- or less. 
I spent quite a lot of time online looking for a way to convert it into a squirrel-proof, starling-resistant feeder, and finally found this amazing contraption. (Someone needs to inform Chapelwood that calling this a 'Squirrel Blocking' Cage rather than 'Squirrel Proof' is not helping the search... | Member of the Wild Empire | | Comments 0
 | | Posted 14-02-2012 at 03:01 PM by jaelen Updated 14-02-2012 at 03:20 PM by jaelen I found this old squirrel-proof feeder when we moved here to North London last year... it was in pretty bad shape although I did try and use if for a while. A few birds had a go, but it usually would hang for days untouched.
After watching the starlings devour every mealworm I ever put out while the robin sat up on a branch watching forlornly, I decided to try and do something with this feeder.  ... | Member of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 2
| | Posted 24-01-2012 at 09:25 PM by jaelen Updated 25-01-2012 at 09:23 AM by jaelen I got the idea for this when I was visiting my parents in the States over Christmas. I came across a bird-feeder especially designed for woodpeckers, with a bit protruding at the bottom to give the bird something to brace its tail against, the way it would against the surface of a tree.
I had noticed how the sparrows struggled sometimes to try and balance on the seed feeders in my garden- contorting themselves to wrap around the underside of the feeder while they tried to grip on... | Member of the Wild Empire | | | Comments 0
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