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captainsblog) wrote2011-11-05 04:00 pm
captainsblog) wrote2011-11-05 04:00 pm
Screwed up in reverse:)
Eleanor asked me to fill the bird feeders just now. I'd been putting it off because the squirrels had made such mincemeat of all the anti-rodent defenses we've laid in out there, most notably a baffle which supposedly shielded the cylindrical feeder from their fat little faces. They'd defeated its function long ago, managing more recently to completely separate the shield from the shaft, and I finally said, screw it and just pulled it off completely. Not having it there also makes it much easier to fill the thing.
Moments later, Rocky Junior just made his first visit.... and was totally stymied. By the lack of a baffle. The suckas had been using it to get purchase on the cylinder, and now they have to re-learn how to jump from the adjacent tree trunk straight onto the noms.
I stood there for a few minutes, hand on the nylon wire running to our porch which shakes the whole assembly, but I never got to use it. He just stared at the new assembly and, after a few moments, stormed off, as if to say, Fine, I'll go buy my OWN baffle.
Come back later, dude. You can see me pull a rabbit out of a hat!
Moments later, Rocky Junior just made his first visit.... and was totally stymied. By the lack of a baffle. The suckas had been using it to get purchase on the cylinder, and now they have to re-learn how to jump from the adjacent tree trunk straight onto the noms.
I stood there for a few minutes, hand on the nylon wire running to our porch which shakes the whole assembly, but I never got to use it. He just stared at the new assembly and, after a few moments, stormed off, as if to say, Fine, I'll go buy my OWN baffle.
Come back later, dude. You can see me pull a rabbit out of a hat!