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Squirrel Resistant Feeder (Green Center Special)

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I've spent decades trying to keep squirrels off my bird feeders with little success. I've a had a variety of squirrel-proof feeders with little success including the one that would spin them around. That one would go haywire and spin wildly at random times. One of my feeders had a cantilevered perch and when I opened the top to add more seed a chipmunk jumped out. Eventually a bear ate it. I wired up my feeders to a fence charger which was successful until the squirrels started wearing little rubber boots. I found this birdfeeder at the Green Center recycle center in New Ipswich and I can honestly say that that it highly effective. I don't believe any feeder can be 100% squirrel proof, but this one is great. I'm not sure if it will accommodate multiple heavier birds. It is well worth the zero cost. I'll keep trying until I succeed Maybe I can remove the top

Geotagging Photos

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Mobile phones and some digital cameras automatically add timestamps and geographic coordinates to photographs which a great tool for organization. That is not the case when dealing with analog photography.  It is amazing how quickly one forgets where and when a photos was taken. The problem becomes even more difficult when working with century old glass negatives. However once they are digitized I am able to add geographic data to the image files. I use Google Maps to find that data. Some places are easy to locate on Google Maps I find the location on  Google Maps , add a pin and the coordinates are displayed in the URL at the top of the screen.I copy those into the file to geotag the photo (42°45'12" N 71°51'28" W). In Lightroom or other photo software, manually add coordinates from Google to the metadata field (on right in GPS field) Once a photo has GPS data, it can be displayed in applications such as Google Photos, 500px, flickr and mo