You never know who might visit your bird feeders at night. At the Cornell FeederWatch cam, a raccoon scaled the feeder platform in the middle of the night to munch on seed. Despite elevating feeders and using baffles on the supports, sometimes unwanted (yet industrious) feeder visitors may find their way to the honey hole.
Some folks don't mind if other animals visit their bird feeders, but free-for-all feeders can result in high seed costs, damage to equipment, or overly persistent individuals that may become a nuisance. For tips on how to deter unwanted visitors at your feeder visit Project FeederWatch at feederwatch.org/learn/feeding...
Watch LIVE at AllAboutBirds.org/CornellFeeders for news, updates, and more information about the pond and its surroundings.
This FeederWatch cam is located in the Treman Bird Feeding Garden at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in Ithaca, New York. Perched on the edge of both Sapsucker Woods and its 10-acre pond, these feeders attract both forest species like chickadees and woodpeckers as well as some species that prefer open environments near water like Red-winged Blackbirds.
The Wild Birds Unlimited store at Sapsucker Woods has been a part of the visitor experience in the Cornell Lab’s Visitor Center ever since the new building opened in 2003. They are the preferred vendor of official Cornell Lab merchandise and offer a dizzying number of feeders, binoculars, and birdwatching-related gear and gifts to make any bird enthusiast happy. WBU has also pledged support for many of the Cornell Lab’s local efforts, including providing the bird feeders and food for this FeederWatch Cam.
The FeederWatch cam hardware includes an Axis P1448-LE camera with an an ETS ML1-WPW microphone.
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