Let them eat cake!

This winter has been exceptionally cold, and we had two pretty impressive snow falls. So, I decided to help nature along and feed the birds. I have all these bird houses around and my goddaughter asked me one day, you house the birds, where's the bird feeders? My responce was "my yard is a bird feeder." And that's true. I have something blooming all year long. Berries in abundance. seeds, plants, trees, there's plenty for them to eat, and there must be, because I have a ton of birds in the yard.

Well, as far as I could tell, the only one's benefiting from the new drive thru bird feeders I intalled were the squirrels. Until they finally broke the feeder.

I gave up. But not soon enough. I had already planted the idea of easy food in their squirrel brains, and while they were at it they found a nice opening in my shed roof and figured, hmm.... shelter too. So, almost $400 later, I have a guy on my shed roof setting a trap to catch the squirrels that have decided to build a nest in my shed.

I watched the squirrell for a couple of days go in and out. They also chewed the hold in the roof bigger, for ease of use I thought, but no, it's their marking. The bite marks indicate it's theirs.

I could cohabitate with the critters. I do feel bad, they worked so hard. But I will not be able to go into my shed, They can be very territorial, at least thats what the young man from ZooPro told me. He also said they'll take them about 10 miles out, that will insure they won't come back. So, I make my coffe trying not to look outside at the trap.
I woudl freak if I saw the thing in there. And my hired Daniel Boone will come back every day for 10 days to insure they're gone and then patch up any holes that will insure they can't get in again.

And I'll forgo the feeders, which by the way according to Trapper Dan, is the number one reason people get critters in the house.

It's like my friend once told me about this man that used to stop over all the time. I was compaining how he would just pop in unexpected, and sit and chat. Which he did one day when she was here, and of course, being brought up the way I was, I offered him a cup of coffe, and asked if he had breakfast yet.. so on. My friend exclaims, "no wonder he keeps coming back, you're feeding the critter!"