Black capped Chickadees at Squirrel Buster Feeder in December
When the birds stopped visiting my finch feeder, after having visited all summer, I asked for advice. In the end, I got a Brome's Squirrel Buster feeder because it has both the ability to dispense sunflower seed and to repel squirrels. I wanted to see if that would bring back the birds.
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Chapters
0:00 Title, Time, Place
0:12 Landlord's Rules: Don't Feed the Squirrels
0:21 Squirrels
0:36 Eastern Grey Squirrel
1:05 American Red Squirrel
1:45 Squirrels are destructive
2:22 Squirrel-proof Finch Feeder
2:40 Birds but no squirrels
3:13 September: No More Birds
3:22 Two Chickadees Sighted
4:00 I asked for and received advice
4:35 Brome's Squirrel Buster Feeder
5:12 Birds at the Bus Stop: Junco, Cardinal, Chickadee
6:20 Black-capped Chickadee: First Visitor at my Squirrel Buster Feeder
6:49 Two Chickadees: Study of Chickadees Begins--calls, feeding patterns, routines, food
8:02 Stages of Feeding
8:20 Coming in from the Tree
8:23 Food of Choice
8:46 Returns to Tree with Food to Pick out the Meat of Seed
8:52 Study of Picking out the Meat
10:38 Vocalizing While Eating
11:18 Appendix: On using the Brome Squirrel Buster Feeder