Appamada Bird Project sixth week

 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:



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