We've moved office at work recently. I'm now the proud owner (renter whatever) of a window that opens! Yay!

And there is a tree outside filled with birds. OK, so they're kinda boring birds mostly, but hey....they're birds. So I HAD to put a feeder up right?

Well I found a great little window feeder that attachs via suction cup at Wally World. Seven bucks. So good investment right?

Well... ya know that tree? There are squirrels in there too. Uh huh. Bird feeder thieving squirrels. Not even cute red ones or gorgous blonde ones. Big ass black squirrels. Well, they raid my feed in no time and quickly knocked it down. So I retrieve it and since I'm on 2nd storey, I tie a stretchy name tag cord to the base so it doesn't fall all the way to the ground. Sorta acting like a bungee jumping cord. So that works, but the suction cup really isn't very strong and the feeder falls off regularly.

Well....it just so happens that I bought hubby Sirius satellite radio for Christmas and it came with a car kit and we didn't use the "attach it to the windshield" attachment they give. Which is.....a big ass SERIOUS suction cup.

So I rig that suction cup up to the bird feeder and it works pretty well. But, its not too long and the squirrels manage to knock it off. Well this time the suction cup is so durn heavy that the stress on the base was too much and the feeder broke. So back to WalMart I go and buy another one. This time I attach my stretchy cord to the top of the feeder. Duh. Why didn't I think of that before?

So...for now we're happy.