Bird Wind Mini - Small birds, finally winning

About a year ago, I put a bird feeder in my garden. A small, wooden thing. Charming, in an aggressively wholesome sort of way. And for a while, life was good. Little birds. Fluttering about. Eating seeds. Being small and delightful.

Then the pigeons arrived.

Now, I have nothing against pigeons in principle. But these weren't elegant city pigeons with somewhere to be. These were fat, arrogant, waddling vacuum cleaners that would land on top of the feeder, spread themselves out like they owned the place, and consume an entire week's worth of food before I'd finished my morning coffee. The small birds, the ones the feeder was actually for, didn't stand a chance.

Something had to be done.

The obvious solution, of course, would have been to buy a different feeder. But that would have been sensible, and sensible is boring. Instead, I sat down and designed a wind turbine.
 

Not the ugly industrial kind that politicians put on hillsides to make themselves feel better. No. This one has blades with an actual organic shape, something that looks like it belongs in nature rather than on an invoice from a German engineering firm. Underneath, there's a click system that accepts a 625 bearing, because if you're going to put a spinning thing on a bird feeder, it had better actually spin.
 

And here's the thing, it does. The slightest breeze and it's off, turning away happily like a tiny, smug power station.

The pigeons, confronted with a rotating object where their throne used to be, are baffled. There is nowhere to land. Nowhere to waddle. Nowhere to be insufferable. So they leave.
 

And the little birds? They're back. Eating in peace. Unbothered. Victorious.
 

I call it the Bird Wind (Mini). It sits on top of your feeder, it spins in the wind, and it has completely outwitted a pigeon.

Honestly, I'm more proud of this than I probably should be.
 

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