This live feed for me was as hard as rocket science (maybe its a way of answering the threads original question)
Maybe ;)
I have grackles in the early mornings and they almost empty the feeder.
It could be a grackle I saw visit this morning. I took a screenshot of it - well a few actually but only one using the correct keys.
Yes those were grackles you saw visit. They are quite aggressive towards other birds and to each other.
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The squirrels have pretty much given up trying to climb the PVC sleeve. They just feed off of what falls to the ground.
Yes I saw that yesterday ... although it wasn't quite what I expected... no... but as you can see, everything looked fiiiiiiiiine this morning :)
If you had visited earlier in the week the camera would have been down. Yet one more issue with Youtube changing out the "<iframe>" code for the live stream. There is a solution which I have implemented so I one again find myself immersed in optimism.
I added a second "bird feeder" which is obviously not squirrel proof but the "lollipop" feeder definitely keeps the little critters on the ground. I also switched to OBS to push the video to "youtube" rather then the video app that I normally use. OBS has quite a few more features (like two cameras side by side as shown here: (http://usefulramblings.org/?page_id=10801) and seems quite stable/reliable. There might be a windows version of OBS but I did not pursue it further.
Over a two day period I have not seen a squirrel on the red feeder. I am now going to assume that I have indeed won when it comes to squirrel proofing my bird feeders.
Oh, almost forgot. The large green forest below the feeder consists of sun flowers in various stages of development, but almost all have at least one flower although none as of yet have "burst open".
I hope not. It's all looking very pretty by the way :) I've seen a couple of birds too which was nice, no squirrels though.
Speaking of seeds.... before my sister went to India, she gave me a little bag of mimosa nervosa ones which I instantly lost :/ except I found them about two months ago and although I wasn't sure if they were still viable - I didn't let that spoil the occasion. It turned out they mostly weren't, but one germinated and ever since I've been jealously protecting it from curious fingers prodding at it and cats and whatnot and popping it into the sunbeams that perambulate about the window-ledges and garden (when we actually have sunbeams that is) and, to be completely honest, becoming stupidly fond of it.
I'm now wondering whether I should have given it some experience (of playing dead and recovering again) to build up its resilience to what I did to it after I watered it this evening :/ Today being the second hot day in a row and it looking a little thirsty - it was the right thing to do. What happened next though wasn't because it doesn't look like it's planning to do anything ever now I've dropped it. I know :/ and I know that's not always a death sentence for a plant, but upside down from a great height looks like it is :\ I've done what I can for it in the hope that nature will give me it back, but it's not looking too promising.
Going back to your webcam... I thought I saw a white farmyard duck pottering about near the back of the red feeder cam but I don't think it was a duck at all, but more a trick of the light. Unless of course you do have a white duck...? :)
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I do have a small pond on the backside of the camera but no ducks. About two years ago I had a brown duck attempt a "short field landing" in the pond but that effort scared the hell out of both of us. I was not pretty and since that failed attempt I have not seen another duck. I do have some ring neck doves that are about the size of chickens though.
After months of defeating the squirrels on the bird feeder on the post I discovered today a captured video of a successful attempt to climb the pvc sleeved 4x4 post. I was looking for a grappling hook and rope but the squirrel had neither. They are persistent. I will post that video in a day or so.
I do have a small pond on the backside of the camera but no ducks. About two years ago I had a brown duck attempt a "short field landing" in the pond but that effort scared the hell out of both of us.
*snort all over the internet* :)) y-e-e-e-s I think I know that feeling - although it wasn't a duck, just a pigeon but in the mutual confusion of it getting trapped unexpectedly in my bedroom and me suddenly sitting up in bed like a surfacing leviathan between it and the window and only barely awake - it may as well have been a pterodactyl for the amount of racket I made. On the 18th floor of a tower block, I don't think either of us had expected to meet like that... no...
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and since that failed attempt I have not seen another duck. I do have some ring neck doves that are about the size of chickens though.
Well this one, if it had been one - looked like it was auditioning for the role of the puppet duck in the stage production of Warhorse (I don't know if you've been lucky enough to see that, but if you haven't and you can, you really really should) whilst attempting a vague re-enactment of that bathroom mirror scene in Johnny English I think it was.
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After months of defeating the squirrels on the bird feeder on the post I discovered today a captured video of a successful attempt to climb the pvc sleeved 4x4 post. I was looking for a grappling hook and rope but the squirrel had neither. They are persistent. I will post that video in a day or so.
Nice to have you back Anniet.
Thank you. It's lovely to be so too :) And I'm really looking forward to the video ;)
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here is the video! http://usefulramblings.org/?page_id=10801 . Scroll down to "squirrel successes" (feeder on a 4x4 pole) and enjoy. do you think he as been working out to develop his shoulders for greater purchase power? Note that he/she abandons the attempt and returns to the three where he is evaluating the possibility of a jump from tree to feeder. But he did not. Even squirrels must realize that a broken limb is not desirable.
anniet wrote: This live feed
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I added a second "bird
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I added a second "bird feeder" which is obviously not squirrel proof but the "lollipop" feeder definitely keeps the little critters on the ground. I also switched to OBS to push the video to "youtube" rather then the video app that I normally use. OBS has quite a few more features (like two cameras side by side as shown here: (http://usefulramblings.org/?page_id=10801) and seems quite stable/reliable. There might be a windows version of OBS but I did not pursue it further.
Squirrel fails and
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Squirrel fails and successes: http://usefulramblings.org/?page_id=10801 (scroll down)
Over a two day period I have
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Over a two day period I have not seen a squirrel on the red feeder. I am now going to assume that I have indeed won when it comes to squirrel proofing my bird feeders.
http://usefulramblings.org/?page_id=10801
Oh, almost forgot. The large green forest below the feeder consists of sun flowers in various stages of development, but almost all have at least one flower although none as of yet have "burst open".
Does nature ever stop giving
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Does nature ever stop giving back? A side effect of feeding birds and other critters with black oil sun flower seeds.
Does nature ever stop giving
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I hope not. It's all looking very pretty by the way :) I've seen a couple of birds too which was nice, no squirrels though.
Speaking of seeds.... before my sister went to India, she gave me a little bag of mimosa nervosa ones which I instantly lost :/ except I found them about two months ago and although I wasn't sure if they were still viable - I didn't let that spoil the occasion. It turned out they mostly weren't, but one germinated and ever since I've been jealously protecting it from curious fingers prodding at it and cats and whatnot and popping it into the sunbeams that perambulate about the window-ledges and garden (when we actually have sunbeams that is) and, to be completely honest, becoming stupidly fond of it.
I'm now wondering whether I should have given it some experience (of playing dead and recovering again) to build up its resilience to what I did to it after I watered it this evening :/ Today being the second hot day in a row and it looking a little thirsty - it was the right thing to do. What happened next though wasn't because it doesn't look like it's planning to do anything ever now I've dropped it. I know :/ and I know that's not always a death sentence for a plant, but upside down from a great height looks like it is :\ I've done what I can for it in the hope that nature will give me it back, but it's not looking too promising.
Going back to your webcam... I thought I saw a white farmyard duck pottering about near the back of the red feeder cam but I don't think it was a duck at all, but more a trick of the light. Unless of course you do have a white duck...? :)
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I do have a small pond on the
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I do have a small pond on the backside of the camera but no ducks. About two years ago I had a brown duck attempt a "short field landing" in the pond but that effort scared the hell out of both of us. I was not pretty and since that failed attempt I have not seen another duck. I do have some ring neck doves that are about the size of chickens though.
After months of defeating the squirrels on the bird feeder on the post I discovered today a captured video of a successful attempt to climb the pvc sleeved 4x4 post. I was looking for a grappling hook and rope but the squirrel had neither. They are persistent. I will post that video in a day or so.
Nice to have you back Anniet.
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*snort all over the internet* :)) y-e-e-e-s I think I know that feeling - although it wasn't a duck, just a pigeon but in the mutual confusion of it getting trapped unexpectedly in my bedroom and me suddenly sitting up in bed like a surfacing leviathan between it and the window and only barely awake - it may as well have been a pterodactyl for the amount of racket I made. On the 18th floor of a tower block, I don't think either of us had expected to meet like that... no...
Well this one, if it had been one - looked like it was auditioning for the role of the puppet duck in the stage production of Warhorse (I don't know if you've been lucky enough to see that, but if you haven't and you can, you really really should) whilst attempting a vague re-enactment of that bathroom mirror scene in Johnny English I think it was.
Thank you. It's lovely to be so too :) And I'm really looking forward to the video ;)
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here is the
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here is the video! http://usefulramblings.org/?page_id=10801 . Scroll down to "squirrel successes" (feeder on a 4x4 pole) and enjoy. do you think he as been working out to develop his shoulders for greater purchase power? Note that he/she abandons the attempt and returns to the three where he is evaluating the possibility of a jump from tree to feeder. But he did not. Even squirrels must realize that a broken limb is not desirable.
Squirrels have no fear of the
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Squirrels have no fear of the long arm of the law ...
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/27/squirrel-caught-stealing-cops-doughnut-in-viral-video.html