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[livejournal.com profile] taxlady told me about this innovative anti-squirrel bird feeder some time ago, but I hadn't seen it. Now I have. Introducing the Twirl-a-Squirrel:

Date: 2007-03-16 02:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ellenk.livejournal.com
My dad has this whirl-a-squirrel thing in his yard. It looks like a big propeller with a big end (at the bottom, of course) and a little end. You put a corncob on the little end. The squirrel climbs up to get the corncob, and suddenly the little end is heavier (with the addition of the squirrel) and it starts spinning around and around. Funny as hell to watch!

Date: 2007-03-16 03:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] taxlady.livejournal.com
Here's a link to a commercial for the one I saw. It twirls them off faster than what you showed. In the Discovery Channel segment, they showed the same squirrels going back again and again. I think the squirrels have fun.

Droll Yankees commercial

Here's a much shorter clip, without the commercial bumf Yankee Flipper

Date: 2007-03-16 09:47 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] skjalm.livejournal.com
Hehe, that does look funny. Personally, though, I've always liked squirrels better than birds so I'd like to see the "inverted" thing where the birds are thrown off and the squirrels can eat.

An interesting thing, though, is that the video don't show birds feeding from the feeders the squirrels are twirled off from...

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