Monday, August 10, 2009

Squirrelly

One of the things we enjoy at our house is teasing the squirrels that feed around our deck. We have a feeder called “squirrel under glass”.



Available online ($42.99 + shipping)

However with a couple of cedar fence boards and a wide mouth jar, we built our own for under $5.00. Maybe I should go into business, not a bad idea for a cottage industry.

We enjoy seeing the squirrels try to get at peanuts in hanging containers. We have also tied peanuts in ropes hanging from the deck. It's fun to see them try to get to the nuts. Finally they learn that they can pull the ropes up and get to the nuts. Once the rope disappeared, it had been cut. We found it the next day in our front yard.

We got some ideas from several websites.

2007 Squirrel Obstacle Course (Scroll completely thru this links contents, it has several YouTube videos).

Crazy smart squirrel obstacle course
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1 comment:

  1. Cute idea, I showed it and the squirrel obstacle course video to the girls. They are quite entertaining animals!

    It would be fun to think up an obstacle course for squirrels.

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