Separate Tables

October 6, 2008: Sometimes it just makes sense to have different places to feed your back yard wildlife. We tried many feeders and poles. Squirrels climbed onto the bird feeders and ate the seed. Deer also ate the birdseed. Finally, a solution: A feeding platform, a bird feeding station, and a squirrel lunchbox. Don’t worry about the deer: they eat the clover and dandelions in the grass. The bluejays also enjoy the platform. And the seed that drops from all of the feeders is picked up by the ground-feeding birds.

The squirrels get black-oil sunflower seed, tiny pieces of apple, and nuts. The bird feeders have black-oil sunflower seed, wild bird seed, Nyjer thistle. There is a special treat cake in a metal basket, at the back. I’ll hang a suet cake in December, when the weather turns cold. Right now, I don’t have any hummingbird feeders, but I have plenty of nectar flowers that bloom in the summer and some that bloom in late fall and winter.