Last weekend we were sitting out on the deck eating some dinner and watching all the wildlife activity in our yard.  Birds were coming and going from the birdbath but were a little skittish.  They’d land, chirp a few times, and then fly off without really using the birdbath.  That was until our local pair of Cowbirds showed up.  The male boldly landed on the deck rail and immediately plopped into the birdbath:

After sitting in the water for a few seconds, as if he was testing it, he hopped up on the edge of the birdbath.

He looked over at us very quickly then hopped back into the water.  For the next minute or so he was happily splashing away.

Water was flying all over the place. He wasn’t holding back.  There was no way he wasn’t going to get clean!

He finally stopped and flew off after splashing all the water out of the birdbath

We like our birdbath.

Well, today, when I came home for lunch, I glanced over to the window and saw something that really caught my attention.  I ran upstairs and grabbed the camera and caught the little thief red handed, or should I say “red pawed”

This squirrel was wedged in the feeder happily eating away at all the seed!  I don’t know how he got up there.  The feeder is about 4 feet off the deck and there’s no “launching pads” nearby.  As I moved closer to the window he finally saw me, jumped down, and scampered away.  I guess we need to put the feeder a little higher on the window, huh.