On the recommendation of my pal, Braumeister, at the start of this month I hung
the contraption you see below from a branch on a red maple in our yard.
It is a bird feeder that you fill with peanuts. Peanuts in the shell;
raw, unsalted.
I bought a big bag of nuts at a local bird food joint. And while
they're clearly labeled: NOT FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION I suppose if I tried
one I don't think it would kill me. But you never know.
It took a few days for the local birds to figure-out what it's for and
now I'm restocking it almost twice a week. I figure before too long
some other undesirable critter is going to discover it; so it's hung on a
branch (likely limber-enough to NOT support a large mammal) from a
carabiner using a length of army-surplus metal cable parachute rigging
connected to the feeder. It might just be raccoon-resistant.
These four photographs are a bit of an experiment. It's an old trail
camera on its last legs and the position is all wrong as it's aimed
generally into the sun. I'm thinking I'll have to reposition the cam
180 degrees and relocate the feeder - if the tree and its branches
allow.
Photos are from this morning. Chickadee, white-breasted nuthatch, blue jay and a downy woodpecker.
Stay-tuned....
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