Having Fun with the Squirrels
We warned you. We really did. We told you that we were going to take a simple shepherd's crook, and use a bungee cord, a large screw eye, and some cable ties to hang
an ear of dried corn off the crook just out of reach of a standing squirrel. Enter the jumping rodents!
First the rig...
(Note the rather obvious NovaBird camera in the foreground.)
All told, the Nova' managed to snap roughly 150 pics today. Of those, 100 were of an ear of corn swinging in the wind. And only one or two of the remaining 50 were worth publishing. Those shots follow... (Note: You can see all the pictures at our New England Bird Picture Library.)
Obviously, we don't make the squirrels perform gymnastics every day... But it is fun on the occasion. And it does provide corn for the ground feeders below...
Just watching the squirrels swinging in the breeze by the feeders...
CapeCodAlan
First the rig...
(Note the rather obvious NovaBird camera in the foreground.)
All told, the Nova' managed to snap roughly 150 pics today. Of those, 100 were of an ear of corn swinging in the wind. And only one or two of the remaining 50 were worth publishing. Those shots follow... (Note: You can see all the pictures at our New England Bird Picture Library.)
Obviously, we don't make the squirrels perform gymnastics every day... But it is fun on the occasion. And it does provide corn for the ground feeders below...
Just watching the squirrels swinging in the breeze by the feeders...
CapeCodAlan
Comments
CapeCodAlan,
You are definitely having too much fun!
Gordon
Posted by: Gordon | May 22, 2007 3:22 PM
That last photo is pretty cute. Your squirrels are willing to work pretty hard for that corn! Interesting your New England squirrels have brownish red patches whereas our Western Grays are just that -- gray.
Posted by: kathryn | May 22, 2007 10:41 PM