SQUIRELLS ARGGGHHH! need help!

Hello,

For a long time now i have been having a problem with squirells eating all the birdfood and breaking all the feeders i own, i have experimented with loads of feeders but all have broke! :( does anyone know of a metal feeder which cannot be taken advanage of by squrriels?

Yusuf

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Permalink Reply by Yusuf Akhtar on August 22, 2011 at 16:17

do birds eat chilli, i will have a look at the baffales. only problem is that squrriels can jump very high.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Mottram on August 22, 2011 at 18:03

Peanut butter on the ground and also its very cheap and its keep them busy and away from the feeders for quite sometime.

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Permalink Reply by Yusuf Akhtar on August 22, 2011 at 18:34

but that will only attract them mike. and i dont want to feed them

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Permalink Reply by John Cheney on August 23, 2011 at 9:03

Hi Yusuf.

Yes Squirrels can be a pest, in my garden they have their own feeder and I do all I can to keep them off my bird feeders, you can get a feeder which hangs on a piece of wire and if squirrel do get on it a tube goes down over the feeder itself.

I hope this helps, in the meantime enjoy trying to beat the little dears !!!!

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Permalink Reply by Pamela on September 2, 2011 at 20:57

I have used a squirrel baffle for a about 3 years now, they do work....expensive initially but well worth the outlay!

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Permalink Reply by Yusuf Akhtar on September 2, 2011 at 21:05

where do i get a good one?

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Permalink Reply by Yusuf Akhtar on September 3, 2011 at 12:03

i thik i will use a baffle, but what about birds that feed on the ground or on tables, how to i squrriel proof a bird table?

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Permalink Reply by Yusuf Akhtar on September 3, 2011 at 15:04

or i need this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNPl8P8bfZ4&NR=1 :)

Yusuf Akhtar said:

i thik i will use a baffle, but what about birds that feed on the ground or on tables, how to i squrriel proof a bird table?

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Permalink Reply by Ryan Mottram on September 3, 2011 at 15:10

I Think That Is Cruel Yusuf if you did that.

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Permalink Reply by Yusuf Akhtar on September 3, 2011 at 15:14

mabye but it does say harmless?

Ryan Mottram said:

I Think That Is Cruel Yusuf if you did that.

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Permalink Reply by John Cheney on September 3, 2011 at 16:20

Hi Yusuf.

What I do on a birdtable is put a length of plastic drain pipe on the post, they find it hard to get a grip on it.

I find it usually works. and have the table away from trees etc far enough so they can't jump onto it.