369. Fights with squirrels.  We have been at war!  I put bird seed out and this squirrel has amazingly wiggled and acrobatted himself to the feeder - hanging by claws from tree to feeder, hanging upside down on the feeder.  My bird seed was gone in three days.  War.  Those squirrels had shoes, barbies, ice cubes thrown at them.  Nothing worked - they taunted me - and eventually knocked the feeder down completely. Doug has the feeder back up in a different spot and so far no squirrels.  I like to think it's my ice cube/barbie aim keeping them away.   My neighbors probably think I'm crazy.

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