things are going much better thank you :) *huggles back* :)

i don't know which made me LOL harder... the image of little squirrels with blowtorches or a really, fat woodpecker who couldn't get off the ground...

what annoyed me most about the squirrels was that i had read somewhere that they don't like niger seed, and i had a few out for the finches... the damn things chewed the tubes up

we had one of these http://www.duncraft.com/Droll-Yankees-Flipper-Squirrel-Proof-Feeder-Save-1000-P2080C91.aspx (the video is cute, if i remember it correctly) and it seemed to keep them off...
unfortunately one year it snowed so much that the feeder became the perfect height for the deer in the woods LOL!!

needless to say, it didn't work so well after that :)