Showing posts with label Red Squirrel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Red Squirrel. Show all posts

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Visitors to my bird feeder

This cold spell has a lot of people feeding the birds, and other creatures that they might not suspect are visiting their feeders .
Last December my plastic feeders were wrecked one evening when I returned home ,badly chewed  up I replaced them with steel ones that lasted,then I saw the culprits one morning,3 red squirrels,eating the peanuts I had put out the previous night for the birds.
They usually visited at dawn and before dusk,peanuts being favoured over seed although seeds were eaten too.
On another night I saw a small mouse which was identifyed as being a Woodmouse ,they live and forage mainly in the trees eating berries and small insects,I found this one rather cute and camera friendly.