Recent Posts Tagged With 'squirrels'

• Full to the brim and getting ready for invaders

  Posted on Monday November 30th, 2009 at 13:27 in flowers, weather, squirrels, trees, rain, olive tree, aeonium arboreum

  It has been raining on and off for days. Everything that can fill with water is full. This was the view yesterday at 12 noon. Depressing isn’t it. No wonder the cats spent all day asleep indoors. Wet, wet, wet! With weather like this  it any w...

• Apples for the birdies

  Posted on Sunday February 8th, 2009 at 14:04 in squirrels, wildlife, bird feeders

  A while ago I read a post where Shirl had stuck apples for the birds on the top of her garden  pergola. Good idea I thought. So I cut one in half and attached them to my bird feeding station Don’t they look tasty and appealing! I went indoors ...

• Squirrel weaving

  Posted on Wednesday February 4th, 2009 at 05:26 in squirrels, wildlife

  No this post is not about weaving actual squirrels - although when I see five of them hanging from my bird feeders I am sorely tempted. The squirrels have their own  heavy duty, metal feeder. This I fill  with  peanuts and they are allowed to nibb...

• Got to stop this humming, and a Squirrel update

  Posted on Friday November 7th, 2008 at 05:24 in holidays, flowers, squirrels, wildlife, christmas, christmas cactus, schlumbergera

  I’ve found myself singing a Christmas carol yesterday and humming Christmassy tunes. It’s got to stop. It’s like I’m wishing the next two months of my life away, which didn’t matter when I was young but it does now.  Am...

• Culprit captured on film! Guilt proven!

  Posted on Monday November 3rd, 2008 at 09:54 in squirrels, wildlife, bird table

  What more proof do you need. I took this picture this morning. Northern Shade thought he might be using a saw and she was right.  He is in truth a devilish mastermind. Look at his pitiless expression. Does he care about the hurt he’s causing? ...

• Squirrel or criminal mastermind?

  Posted on Friday October 31st, 2008 at 11:19 in squirrels, wildlife, bird table

  That damn squirrel has beaten me again. Flashback: Squirrel: “Hey look at that. She’s wired and barred it from all angles. I’ll have a quick look on the roof. Nope, there isn’t a chimney I can climb down. Hmmmm…. This ca...

• Squirrel truce, I think I lost out here

  Posted on Tuesday October 21st, 2008 at 05:44 in squirrels, wildlife, pigeons, bird table, squirrel table

  Following a lot of shouted negotiations (on my part) the Squirrels and I have decided on a truce. We didn’t put it in writing for obvious reasons. The terms are that if I provide a Squirrel feeding table they will leave my bird feeders alone (a...

• Lost to squirrels but winning on seedlings

  Posted on Tuesday March 25th, 2008 at 09:51 in greenhouse, squirrels, wildlife, vegetables, peppers, tomatoes

  I’ve given up trying to secure the protective cage over the birds’ ground feeder. Honestly, it was secured with twelve hooked pegs and the squirrels still managed to turn it upside down again and again. Once I started thinking about using...