Squirrel Feeder

Squirrel-activated cameras in testing a way to feed red squirrels without the grey ones stealing all their nuts.

Friday, May 27, 2005

Beginnings

I'm armed with 3 fuzzy photographs of what looks more like a squirrel cage than their potential saviour. Planning a project to test whether this cube of mesh will let red squirrels get to their food while excluding their grey rivals is proving tricky to fit into my one month of squirrel-project time.

Tomorrow I meet the lady who has pioneered the feeder, learning along with her local red squirrels what size of hole lets them through to eat while excluding the greys. After years of trial and error she thinks she's almost perfected the critical size. Tomorrow I hope to see first hand the sight of a red squirrel squeezing through to get a hazelnut!

# posted by henry @ 3:36 pm

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Welcome to the blogosphere henry! Looking forward to hearing a little more about the feeder and the results. :)

# posted by  Anonymous : 2:18 am

 

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Henry Dobson

Testing a revolutionary size-selective squirrel feeder that could help red squirrels to resist the grey squirrel invasion. Research carried out as an Honours project in zoology at the University of Glasgow

All images copyright Henry Dobson excepting those taken in Gosforth Park Nature Reserve as part of an ongoing 3 year research project, copyright Veronica Carnell.

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