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 Pamela on where do i get a good one?
Oops! Sorry about double post!
Garden centres, RSPB, BTO etc!
Permalink Reply by Villayat 'Wolf' Sunkmanitu on Hi Yusuf,
I have the same problem. I got around it by using a metal bird feeding station and caged feeders. I also created a square patch under the feeders and filled it with soil so that the dropped seeds can be picked up by other birds (no cementing necessary - just push a few breeze bloxks together and put the soil in. It should look lovely with sunflowers in the summer.
Re the feeders - you can gtry these:
http://www.streetendfeeds.co.uk/productdetails.asp?id=359 for peanuts (I hammer my nuts to make it easier for the birds to get at them) (no double entendre intended here! Plus I wouldn't refer to women as birds and I don't want to hear about a young man at ER with a hammer and bruised body parts!).
http://www.streetendfeeds.co.uk/productdetails.asp?id=421 for other seeds including sunflower seeds.
For fatballs - I found a similar cage but put a thinner container inside it to stop the squirrel getting to the fat balls in case they transfer anything harmfull through their saliva when eating.
The squirrels leave my feeders alone now.
Good luck ;)
Wolf
Permalink Reply by Myles Storey on Hey Yusuf, What about making one of these:
Permalink Reply by Will Nicholls on or you could use a gun...
the upturned lampshade idea does work thought I believe.
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