5-19-14

We loaded up our bird feeder and waited for the birds to come.

The squirrel came first.

I decided to try and "foil" him with aluminum tape. It didn't work. He climbed right up on the slippery tape.

So then I got devious and mixed cayenne pepper with Crisco and spread it over the foil.

Then I felt guilty and gave the squirrel a peace offering of a piece bread on its tree.

At first the squirrel was deterred. It was not fond of the pepper icing on the foil.

Then this "other" squirrel came into the yard (see, it has a funky tail) and it scurried up over the hot pepper icing and proceeded to eat until its tummy was full. Soon all the squirrels were dining, then drinking water from the bird bath.

I removed the greasy pepper coated foil and cleaned the bird perch of all the slimy mess.

Still waiting on some birds.