Appamada Bird Feeders

 This week was also mostly focused on maintaining our feeders, bird bath, and bird house. We have seen many birds around eating from the feeders and swimming in the bird bath. There is one feeder that squirrels keep getting to and flipping over, so we put a stone in it to weigh it down and hopefully make it harder for the squirrels to mess with. We already tried putting cinnamon in it to repel the squirrels, but that did not appear to work. We will continue to nurture our feeders and maybe add some more if it seems like a good idea. One of our newer feeders: Our bird house! We are still unsure if birds are living here: It's hard to tell, but this is a bird enjoying our bird bath:

 Last week we didn't have a blog post due because we had a service day where we helped our community. These past few weeks we have been maintaining our existing feeders, as well as cleaning out an abandoned feeder that we had at our school. We hung up this feeder and immediately saw birds on it. We also saw a squirrel eating from one of our feeders, even though we put in cinnamon to repel squirrels. We will continue to maintain and observe our feeders and the nature around them! The squirrel that ate out of our feeder: Our trail camera:

 Not much happened this week. On Thursday, I set up the trail camera facing the birdhouse. We haven’t been able to view the photos because we don’t have an SD card reader, although we should have one soon. Today, we cleaned out an old bird feeder, and hopefully, we will fill it soon.

 This week we maintained our bird feeders and gave some of them a much needed cleaning. We also sprinkled some cinnamon in the refreshed feeders to deter squirrels from eating from or messing with the feeders. Next, we put up trail cameras facing the bluebird house. We believe there is currently a bird living in that house, and are excited to continue observing the house and feeder near it. I do not have any pictures from this week due to a field trip.

We have seen a bird going in and out of the birdhouse for the past week, so I put out some mealworms for it. I think that the nesting birds are Bewick’s Wrens, but they have been moving so fast that it’s hard to tell. Sydney has also seen several Northern Cardinals at the bird feeders, and I have been hearing an American Kestrel on campus. Hopefully, we can get a camera trap set out to look at the birdhouse, although we still need some materials. One of the bird feeders was completely destroyed by squirrels, which is unfortunate. Another bird feeder that we were going to clean out has a paper wasp nest in it, so until we deal with that, we can’t put it up. Besides that, everything is going great! We need to get more bird food soon, which is a good sign, and we have a suet feeder that we might start filling as well.

 This week we maintained our previous feeders and put up a new one. We cleaned and filled the feeder, which was an older feeder that our school had lying around. It now looks good as new. We also saw a couple birds at one of our feeders, but unfortunately didn't get a picture. One of our feeders also got chewed up by squirrels, and after deciding that it couldn't be saved, we recycled it. Hopefully we can find a solution for the squirrels if it happens again. The feeder we hung up this week: The feeder that got chewed up by squirrels: