If you love to feed the birds with feeders , but have been dismayed by attacks on the feeders by squirrels, deer, and more recently, bears, I have a solution.
Being old-fashioned and thrifty, I like to dry clothes outdoors. I have a pulley clothesline. It is attached to the house near the back door….about 10 - 11 feet above ground. The other end of the line is attached to a tree on the edge of the yard, at about the same distance from ground level. I attach the filled feeder to the clothesline with a double snap clip (one end clipped to the clothesline, and the other end to the wire handle of the feeder), and pull it out to the middle of the yard. The feeder’s place on the line can be assured with a couple of clothespins. It is too high off the ground for deer or bears to reach it, and squirrels cannot climb out on the line. They have tried again and again to do so, to no avail.
When the feeder is empty, I pull it in and refill it in the warm kitchen, and I don’t have to tramp out into the yard to do it. I’ve been doing this for years, and it really works. Of course, the squirrels and deer (I’ve never seen bears doing it) glean what the birds drop on the ground. They’re welcome to that. And how we do enjoy those birds!!
Marion Kells
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