Exactly so, Doris...
How nice of you to post the picture. My bird feeder is something of a crock. I bought an antique wagon wheel years ago and would never tell how much I paid for it because himself, being a 5th generation Scot, would have been appalled. It had rubber around the edge and that was the feature for me because the birds feet wouldn't get stuck to it in wintertime. However, the raccoons slowly descimated it in trying to reach the bird seed in the feeders and it gradually fell apart. When the cottage on Georgian Bay was sold two years ago, I inherited a wagon wheel which had been used to support a table top and this has been hoisted up on the steel pole, looking quite neat and tidy now. Two hanging baskets with geraniums, two niger seed feeders and wind chimes, one of which Ceilia P, gave me are all visible from my studio window. I'm told raccoons don't like niger seed. So far, so good. One little guy had a good wrestle with my metal garbage can full of bird seed a few weeks ago and rolled it around until the bungee cords snapped off and I haven't looked to see if he ate the whole can of bird seed or not...won't worry about that till next winter. They are persistant little animals and very vicious if you ever get near them. They look cute; they are anything but, and dogs can become violently ill from contact with their saliva although I don't know enough about this to comment other than one breeder's dog ended up in OVC last year as a result of this poisoning. I do not like them around the house, which is why the niger seed.Rosey
posted by RoseyP @ 5:41 AM
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