# Somebody stole our bird feeder! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 22, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somebody-stole-our-bird-feeder/423587 "2007-10-22T17:20:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2007, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somebody-stole-our-bird-feeder/423587/1 "2007-10-22T17:20:28Z")
We have a finch feeder on a shepherd’s hook outside our kitchen window. Yesterday as I was unloading and putting groceries away, I noticed the feeder was gone. It was pretty windy around here on Saturday so I thought maybe there was a possibility that it blew off the hook. (Although highly unlikely in my opinion – it was about a third full of seed and would have had to have swung up about sixty degrees to dislodge from the hook.) I went out and started looking around in the flower beds under the window and then around the rest of the side yard… no bird feeder to be found. So who the heck would steal a bird feeder from the side of someone’s house? :mad: ☹😕 It’s not like it was brand-new – it was a few years old and fairly weather-beaten. Oh well, I guess someone needed it worse than we did. I just hope, since they can’t afford to buy a feeder, that they can at least afford to keep it full. (Maybe they’ll steal seed from someone else’s house.) ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2007, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somebody-stole-our-bird-feeder/423587/2 "2007-10-22T17:48:25Z")
It was probably a squirrel. You can’t trust those theiving rats with bushy tails. Sort of like convenience store thieves disguised as soccer moms. StG ---
**Author:** ![Tupug\_Anachi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@Tupug\_Anachi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tupug_Anachi)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2007, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somebody-stole-our-bird-feeder/423587/3 "2007-10-22T18:14:53Z")
Any black bears in your area? Down [thisaway](http://felid.org/activities/page_208.htm) they love them some birdy food. > [@](#): > > Bears are opportunistic feeders. This means that whatever the easiest path is to their next meal; that is the route they will take. Bears are also very smart and they know it is much easier to knock over a garbage can and eat the good stuff the humans discarded. In addition, they will eat dog food left out for the family pet. **They will even raid a bird feeder.** ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/somebody-stole-our-bird-feeder/423587/4 "2007-10-22T18:32:25Z")
Somebody stole my bird bath last year. On Mother’s Day. Meaning somebody’s mom got a used present. People are assholes.