Here's a Switch!

Squirrels are pests when it comes to bird feeders. If they're not acrobatically defying every anti-squirrel device ever invented, then they're on the ground, sucking up all the seeds that fall down and pushing out the ground feeders.

This fellow, at the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, was really going to town on that brain-like fruit. I'm fairly certain it's an Osage orange, though where he got it is a mystery since those trees aren't near this spot. Whatever it is, as you can see, he was really a messy eater. The fruit was full of seeds which were broadcast to the ground from his perch. Sparrows and cardinals were dancing around in the snow eating them up. For once, a squirrel was helping, not hindering the birds. Ain't nature grand!?