Critters Other Than Birds At Your Feeders

The other day I looked out at our backyard just in time to see a chipmunk loading up his jowls with safflower seed. He was happily sitting in the middle of a glass "donut" feeder that we hung from a post near our fence. He had jumped from the nearby planter box and into the feeder to gorge on the tasty treats and to take some back to his burrow. Sometimes you just have to give in to the other critters that inhabit our yards and let them have a meal from your bird feeders. As long as you have other feeders in your yard that are critter proof, then its OK to let the little furry beasts enjoy the bird food. We had a Cooper's Hawk land on our deck a few days ago, and he no doubt was interested not in our bird feeders but what was feeding from them. A circle of life for certain, but the hawk flew away unsated...this time.