For years, this has been a chickadee feeder!
Now, halloo, what have we here?A woodpecker! He figured out how to land his toes on the gourd edge and rest his belly on the down-turned perch, which is a curved piece of the gourd we cut out for the opening. Sparrows have eyed this feeder, and nuthatches and other small birds have tried, but maybe the clinging required discouraged them.
Squirrels have been thwarted by the large unpurchaseable glass window pane. Leaps have been made from sills, failed leaps of faith at the too-smooth gourd. Hungry leaps of faith, yielding, so far in these dozen or more years of that feeder's life, negative squirrel results.
But now one woodpecker has cracked the safe. Adaptation. Will the chickadees learn to share? Will the woodpecker be back, with friends? Such are the things of moment in a raccoon editor's agenda.
