The Squirrles keep taking down my suite feeder, and I found out how they are doing it.
Jul 3, 2017 12:56:31 #
I am on my 5th suite feeder.
Jul 3, 2017 13:06:05 #
Trap them and release far away. I just spotted a rabbit in my front yard and that's what I will do. I did the same with squirrels at my bird feeders as well. The chipmunk is a different story. Too small for my traps.
Jul 3, 2017 13:08:40 #
mas24
Loc: Southern CA
Brucej67 wrote:
I am on my 5th suite feeder.
Great opportunity and caught red handed. Squirrels are among the most acrobatic of animals. What remedy do you have to prevent this from happening again, without sacrificing feeding? Raccoons are pretty agile animals too.
Jul 3, 2017 13:11:56 #
mas24 wrote:
Great opportunity and caught red handed. Squirrels are among the most acrobatic of animals. What remedy do you have to prevent this from happening again, without sacrificing feeding? Raccoons are pretty agile animals too.
So are chipmunks...This feeder was on a 6 foot Shepards hook...
Jul 3, 2017 13:29:40 #
Someone recommended a slinky.
mas24 wrote:
Great opportunity and caught red handed. Squirrels are among the most acrobatic of animals. What remedy do you have to prevent this from happening again, without sacrificing feeding? Raccoons are pretty agile animals too.
Jul 3, 2017 13:33:04 #
I stood in the backyard for over a half hour having a verbal fight with a squirrel that was on my bird feeder, he won the argument and I just walked away. There are to many of them for me to trap them all so I just try to make it harder for them to take the feeders.
Screamin Scott wrote:
Trap them and release far away. I just spotted a rabbit in my front yard and that's what I will do. I did the same with squirrels at my bird feeders as well. The chipmunk is a different story. Too small for my traps.
Jul 3, 2017 13:37:17 #
Brucej67 wrote:
I sic my dog on them anymore... He isn't fast enough to catch them though & it becomes good exercise for him. I do have to keep an eye peeled out for rabbit nests though as he killed 4 baby rabbits several years back in a nest inside my fenced in yard. Found another nest the following year & relocated it outside of the fence before he found it.I stood in the backyard for over a half hour having a verbal fight with a squirrel that was on my bird feeder, he won the argument and I just walked away. There are to many of them for me to trap them all so I just try to make it harder for them to take the feeders.
Jul 3, 2017 14:23:41 #
As a thief this guy's a real "HACK"! I "SAW" him do it!
Vey cute Bruce! Made my day! Happy 4th!
Vey cute Bruce! Made my day! Happy 4th!
Jul 3, 2017 14:33:10 #
Brucej67 wrote:
Someone recommended a slinky.
Our local agway store sells a squirrel deterrent device for poles that looks just like a slinky. I use 7 foot poles, double baffled and placed far enough away from anything the squirrels may jump from. The little buggers try, but they haven't made it to the SUET on those poles. Another trick I use on the squirrels is oversized suet feeders with wire mesh inserted. I put a regular size suet cake in the big feeders and the birds with their long beeks have no problem getting to the suet, but the squirrels can't reach it, the holes are too small.
Jul 3, 2017 14:35:44 #
Untill you understand that you do not have bird feeders, and in fact you have squirrel feeders you will not be happy.
Jul 3, 2017 15:20:02 #
Someone told me a good shake of cayenne pepper; the birds don't taste it but the squirrels don't like it.
Jul 3, 2017 15:40:30 #
joehel2 wrote:
Someone told me a good shake of cayenne pepper; the birds don't taste it but the squirrels don't like it.
This is true, birds have no heat receptors in their mouths. They can eat the hottest of peppers with no ill effect. Squirrels on the other hand, do.Hot pepper sauce is not to their liking.
Jul 3, 2017 22:09:52 #
mas24
Loc: Southern CA
Screamin Scott wrote:
So are chipmunks...This feeder was on a 6 foot Shepards hook...
6 feet high. He must have been really hungry. He's cute though.
Jul 4, 2017 07:32:32 #
Jul 4, 2017 07:55:44 #
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