I never dreamed I’d have major problems when I decided to operate a wild life “bed and breakfast.” Below, in pictures, you can see some of my recent frustrations. Two days ago, I awakened to see the Bluebird house leaning precariously. How could this happen after all my hard work (and the application of a Bungee cord)?? Oops, I forgot to take a picture. ~~ Now the Bluebird house is situated between my apartment and the neighbor’s apartment. I removed two sections of pipe so the house is closer to the ground and less likely to topple over. Note the extra weights at the bottom. To add “insult to injury” (ha) some other species of bird adopted the Bluebird house. For several days, I brushed away the nesting material that accumulated. He/she was not intimidated!! In one day’s time he/she put more nesting material in than the several previous days combined. I didn’t have the heart to evict them again!!

Yesterday I awakened to see that the bird seed and suet feeder had disappeared from its limb at the edge of the woods. I had difficulty retrieving the feeder because there is a steep slope (not obvious in the picture).  Fortunately, a fallen tree, or limb, prevented the feeder from cascading into an inaccessible area.  ~~  Two days earlier, a smaller feeder disappeared from that same area (and I can’t find it).

In my humble opinion, the area looks rather naked now.  I really enjoyed watching the birds, and squirrels, at that location.  Speaking of squirrels, I wonder if they created these problems–or did a raccoon??  (Furthermore [boo hoo], now I can’t see the Bluebird house from my comfortable chair.)