Bird Feeder

[Sean Regan]

When the kids were small we had a "pet" squirrel.
The kids found it as a baby being chased by other kids.
They brought it home and we bottle fed it.
After a few weeks we let it loose in the garden but would always come in.
Of an evening, it would curl up on my wife's lap, using its tail as a blanket. If you moved its tail to see if it was asleep, if it weren't it would put it back. Now and again it would occasionally climb up on me and put a peanut down the top pocket of my shirt.
It could run up my wife's tights without laddering them and grip the folds of her skirt to make her way up to her shoulder.
We fed it on assorted nuts and some bits of vegetable, but it really loved ice cream.
I converted a kid's rolltop desk for a house for it. It would go in there at night when we went to bed.
Here it is sunbathing on top of the eldest son's garage. It would happily go to sleep on there

 

[Steveear]

I left a feeder in my backyard and it attracted a lot of birds. What caught my attention was that the weak and hesitant sparrows also visitedmy home. They surprised me because they are extremely alert to danger, almost to the point of paranoia.

 

[Esther Knapicius]

I have heard it said that over time squirrels, like humans, develop a taste for hot things

would take some doing with the pepper that draws tears to your eyes if inches away from it. but go for it squirrels.