As I was sitting in my office a few minutes ago I noticed our male cardinal feeding from our "cardinal feeder." The cardinal feeder is an ingenious device with counter weights measured to the weight of a cardinal: the equivalent of seven quarters. If a bird is too light the perch will not lower enough to get food through the window. If a bird is too heavy the perch will pass the opening and again nothing. But, like life there is always someone trying to get away with something (cheat, steal, etc). Such it is with our cardinal feeder. The Gila Woodpecker has figured out how to grab ahold of the side of the feeder with one leg, and then put just the right amount of weight from his other leg on the perch to get to the food. Nothing is foolproof.
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