the are annoying lil tree rats sometimes

now i've never minded them MUCH. but they are GREEDY. they'll chase birds away from bird feeders. they steal all the food from it, more food than they could EVER eat, and bury it for later.... then the lil devils forget where they buried it!

so i put some home made squirrel deterrents on my feeder. to be specific, a couple 2 liter soda bottles and a sheet of plastic near the top. they got around it. so i added a couple more soda bottles. still they'd do this leap of faith from the tree branch and land on the feeder! so recently i added ANOTHER soda bottle, got a total of 4, got that hard plastic sheet near the branch, and now i put some soft plastic drop sheeting covering the roof of the feeder. so now the squirrels leap, and SLIIIIIDEEE right off the slippery sheet!

so this morning i'm ignoring the TV in favor of watching the squirrels run back and forth in irritation twitching their tails. leap out of desperation and falling to the ground UNDER the feeder. and then the stop and look in the window at me. yes, i'm serious. they do. you can tell that they're looking at me cause if i even move a bit they run. where when they are looking down or at something else i can actually walk to the window and they dont move.
do you ever really watch squirrels? they are funny as heck when their desires are thwarted. they get so mad running back and forth and twitching their tails, you can almost hear 'em cussing

and it cracks me up!!!
