Uggh! They're eating all my birdseed! Chewing up my birdfeeders. Making me crazy! I wonder if I were to set out my extra food that I have - the extras that is too much to toss in with my worms for composting - if that would keep them fat and happy? ??? What do you think?
I had a bucket of birdseed that was past its prime so I put that out for the yard rats in hopes they'd leave my feeders alone. All that did was attract even MORE squirrels to the yard and they still terrorized my feeders...grrrrr.
Diana Farmgirl Sister #272 St. Peters MO Country Girl trapped in the city!
I just chased a squirrel out of the feeder I had filled this morning. Those little rodents are quite the bottomless pits when it comes to eating up my bird feeder. I have found the sock feeders keep them away though. They can't figure out how to get the seed out of those.
Early this morning I found 3 big beautiful deer in my feeder this morning. Sure hope this means they aren't eating my landscaping.
I thiink it is the Vermont Country Store that sells the whirl a Suirrel, it is this big metal ring with spikes on it. The thought is you place some ears of corn on the spikes and the wheel turns around. I'm not sure if the object is to hurl the squirrel off the wheel or make him hurl. I don't know if it would work, and of course I'm a cheap Yankee so I'm not going to buy it. I suppose it might work. I have my feeders on metal poles which works ok until the snow piles up///
They are very frustrating little devils aren't they?
JenniferJuniper
True Blue Farmgirl
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Jennifer
New Hampshire
USA
359 Posts
Posted - Jan 13 2009 : 07:10:57 AM
My neighbor at my previous hous had an ingenious squirrel deterrent: She strung a line between two trees. About 4 feet from each tree on the line she strung what looked like a round pizza pan with a hole drilled in the center. I'm sure the pans were anchored with somehting, a clothespin or whatnot. In the line between the pizza pans, she had her bird feeders hanging in a row. This way they squirrels could not run across the line to the seed.
If your feeder is hanging from a tree, I bet you could do the pizza pan trick a couple feet above the feeder. kind of making a canopy/deterrent.
They're hanging from shepherds hooks. I need to fashion some sort of "baffle" I suppose.
I had just filled my feeder the other day when one climbed up on the hook and was sitting there happily stuffing itself. I banged on the window to scare him off - when he jumped, he knocked about 1/2 the seed out of the feeder.
Squirrels
Posted - Jan 12 2009 : 08:54:17 AM
