Had a good laugh this morning when one of the little
blighters tried to climb the hanginh feeder pole that I smothered with
some old vaseline I found at the back of the garage cupboard, he got
half way up, then slowly slid back down twice before giving up!

--
Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales

Sliding - and woodpeckers. I've one of those inexpensive bird feeder
holders from Aldidls - a steel pole with arms type. Last year a young
woodpecker did just the same trying to get onto one of the feeders and
slid all the way down the pole clearly wondering what was going on and
how to get out of it - it ended up in a mess on the ground and
disappeared in a flurry of puzzled feathers.

Rob