{"id":1400,"date":"2006-07-09T16:58:01","date_gmt":"2006-07-09T21:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2006-07-09T23:13:15","modified_gmt":"2006-07-10T04:13:15","slug":"squirrels-are-proof-that-god-is-not-entirely-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/squirrels-are-proof-that-god-is-not-entirely-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Squirrels are proof that God is not entirely good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They pulled all the perches out of my old Droll Yankee cylinder feeder. I&#8217;ve managed to keep one in after all these years.<br \/>\nThey ripped the &#8220;squirrel proof&#8221; feeder from its hanger. It had worked pretty well. It&#8217;s a small cylinder enclosed in a spherical cage. But they threw it to the ground and ripped the lid off of it.<br \/>\nThen when I left for vacation and didn&#8217;t fill the feeders, they ripped a hole in the screen of my porch. They came in and tossed seed all over.<br \/>\nSo I went down to Wild Birds Unlimited on MLK Blvd. WBU is run by a long lost friend Carl Delamar. When I was in college, I shared a house on Park Ave in Raleigh with Carl. Later he worked at UNC for a while. Now he is a happy bird accessory peddler &#8212; a very nice life.<br \/>\nCarl has a nice little selection of squirrel bedeviling feeders, baffles, hangers and the like. I was originally hot for a battery powered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drollyankees.com\/products.cfm?ID=68\">Yankee Flipper<\/a> or a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drollyankees.com\/products.cfm?ID=176\">Yankee Whipper<\/a>. Each of these spins the squirrels off the feeder with a nice degree of force (for the bird lover not so nice for the squirrel) and into space. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drollyankees.com\/products.cfm?ID=175\">Yankee Tipper<\/a> which also looks like trouble for squirrels has a seed pan\/perch that tips over with the weight of a squirrel &#8212; no batteries required.<br \/>\nWe ended up buying Wild Birds Unlimited&#8217;s own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbu.com\/edu\/sqrfree.htm\">Eliminator<\/a>. It doesn&#8217;t send the squirrel to meet his maker, but it does close down when a squirrel grabs the perches.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s up now and full of seed and waiting to feed bird and to cut off all squirrels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They pulled all the perches out of my old Droll Yankee cylinder feeder. I&#8217;ve managed to keep one in after all these years. They ripped the &#8220;squirrel proof&#8221; feeder from its hanger. It had worked pretty well. It&#8217;s a small cylinder enclosed in a spherical cage. But they threw it to the ground and ripped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}