Twirl-A-Squirrel

2 star rating

March 11, 2008

Eliza G. 30 reviews Send Message | Add to Friends

A Squirrel Too Far?

When spring started to become official, I began to think about supporting the local flock of acorn woodpeckers. I love to watch them at the birdbath, and a woodpecker moving around a tree trunk is a cross between a dancer and a magician.

The best thing to feed woodpeckers seems to be black oil sunflower seeds, and since the hulls can really build up, I decided that the shelled version would be the way to go. That gets expensive, fast, though, and the neighborhood is also full of squirrels. High-energy squirrels, I imagine they have quite an appetite. So I went shopping for a squirrel-proof bird feeder.

Enter the Twirl-A-Squirrel. The name says it all. YouTube is full of videos - check it out. (The weight of the squirrel on the feeder causes it to spin until the squirrel falls off.)

No, I didn't buy one. For one thing, I'm not sure it would be appropriate for woodpeckers. But the idea, the concept - isn't this maybe going just a little too far? Then again, the frustration of someone who is trying to help maintain a local bird population and ends up feeding squirrels instead is hard to overstate. I'm not sure.

There's something else called a "Yankee Flipper" - I'm afraid to look...

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