When Bandito is active at my feeder I have to fill it nearly twice as often, so recently I’ve begun making an attempt to reduce my losses.
Yes, this is a shameless plug for my friends at Wild Birds Unlimited – owners Kelli Frame in Salt Lake City and Dan and Barbara Gleason in Eugene, Oregon. It’s a price I’m willing to pay for the birds but it isn’t my intention to feed every stray critter in the neighborhood. This bag cost me $44 – normally it’s $52 but I belong to their Daily Saving’s Club so I get it a little cheaper. I buy high quality bird seed at Wild Birds Unlimited by the 20 lb. Until this spring and summer when one of them, a presumed male that I call Bandito, started stealing bird seed from one of my feeders. I began seeing them in my neighborhood and yard several years ago and I thoroughly enjoyed having them around and watching their antics. They were first reported near the Jordan River in Salt Lake City in 2011 and in the intervening years their numbers in northern Utah have increased dramatically. I’ve told you about Bandito before but it’s time you met him, one of the most proficient bird seed thieves in the county.įox squirrels, also known as eastern fox squirrels, are not native to Utah.
