Posted on 06/04/2020 7:59:22 PM PDT by rlmorel
Mark Rober (Former NASA Engineer of "Stolen Package Glitterbomb" fame was being outsmarted by squirrels successfully raiding his birdfeeders, so he decided to science it into submission.
LINK: Building the Perfect Squirrel Proof Bird Feeder-The Ultimate Squirrel Obstacle Course!"
I sure hope so! Enjoy!
I watched this the other day. Good stuff and I love his presentation. If nothing else he got himself countless hours of entertaining squirrel watching.
I have a motorized bird feeder called the Yankee Spinner, and this works pretty well, even if, as this video shows...the squirrel does extract its pound of bird seed!
Squirrel goes for a ride on the Yankee Spinner...:)
(Click on the link to see the video in slo-mo...it is pretty impressive!)
Get out your pellet gun and knock them down.
My takeaway: either this dweeb is single (and I can point to a dozen different observations to corroborate that theory), or he doesn’t even have a cat, much less children. I wasn’t about to fritter away 12 minutes of my mortal existence watching this in its entirety, so I may be wrong.
Check out his snowball machine gun.
I have certainly grown to admire them! I tried an experiment, capturing squirrels to see how many I could capture before the fill rate of other squirrels replacing the ones I trapped and transported to a new home...
I got up to thirteen, and then it just leveled out, so I figured that was it.
Interestingly, my wife was laughing at me because one squirrel was getting the best of me. It figured out how to get the peanuts without tripping the trap. So, after a couple of times (He was digging under and pulling the peanuts out) I put a little dentist cup with peanut butter in it.
He somehow dragged it to the side and licked it clean, leaving the cup in the cage.
My wife found all of this quite funny, so I poked holes in the cup and tie-wrapped it in the center of the cage.
That got him.
But, before it got him, I caught something else, something I didn’t think I would.
A Blue Jay.
I check the trap, and saw the Blue Jay fluttering around inside and felt awful. Blue Jays are my favorite bird by far, and I didn’t even think one would go in there.
But he did.
So when I went out to release him/her, it was lying on its back with its talons in the cage side, and just stopped moving when I walked up. It just froze there looking at me.
I opened the front of the trap, and after a few seconds it flew out. It didn’t fly away though. It flew right up into a small Weeping Cherry about ten feet up and sat there looking at me.
It’s funny to watch.
I think he is well known so I don’t think he would lie about his kids. He is the guy who built the glitter bomb because people were stealing packages off of front porches in his neighborhood.
He’s creative and funny.
I think you are missing out, but...well, different strokes and all.
Well, I think it is pretty clear he was interested in seeing how the animal would react, and was pretty funny in his commentary.
I didn’t know that squirrels could fall from nearly any height and survive, though I did see one on my morning commute one day walking on a powerline over a busy road, and it fell off, bounced off the asphalt a couple of cars in front of me, and darted off the road to live another day.
Funny. There is a section of road with rows of oak trees on either side, and it is a squirrel graveyard. The road is littered with corpses of dead squirrels.
When I saw this scene, I wondered if God had farmed out the programming of the squirrel road-crossing program to some lesser angel who was being given a last chance to produce.
He almost got it working, but still too often, the squirrel would get across the road free and clear, then suddenly turn and run right under the tires of a car.
Go figure.
Thanks for sharing! Loved it.
Glad you liked it. I am about done with COVID, Protests, Chinese, and all the other garbage. A break is good.
That’s fun. Thanks for posting.
ROFLMAO! I shared that one out last week.
Glad you liked it...:)
What i want is a much improved hummingbird feeder that:
Is easy to fill
Easy to clean
Uv durable
Drip proof
Ant proof
Bee and wasp proof
Easy to take down and put up
Okay! Next, how to stop those pesky voles...
Thanks for the heads up to this. Funny stuff!
Outsmarting squirrels is clearly a bigger challenge than tricking package thieves. LOL
If they are greys, or fox, they would end up in my frying pan.
Good stuff. We need some fun these days. :)
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