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The little bastards keep destroying the bird feeders
Any one have any idea how to keep them away I have even put grease
buy the feeder thinking they would not be able or would not like it on there paws but it is not doing anything. I do not want to hurt them just keep them from destroying the feeders. I think it is mating season there are all over in twos.
 
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Re: Squirells driving my nuts

I put in a feeder on a post in the yard that wasnt close to a tree and wrapped the post with some white aluminum flashing. They couldn't climb it as the surface was too smooth.
 
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Re: Squirells driving my nuts

Fried squirrel, home made biscuits, gravy mashed taters. Don't get much better than that. slkpk
 
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depending on the loction of trees and building you could suspend the feeder from a wire strung between those things , if its away from anything they can leap from and high enough from the ground it will work . We had the same mounting and it worked, to refill the feeder you unhooked the cable from a lower peg on the garage and hooked it to the upper peg which allowed the right amount of slack to pass over a pully mounted higher on the garage wall the feeder then came down to a couple of feet off the ground for refilling .
 
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Squirrel is good eating. My mother grew up in rural Missouri during the depression, so they ate whatever my grandfather could shoot, and it was mostly rabbit and squirrel. I had it occasionally when I was young when we went out to my grandparents on our summer vacations. One thing I couldn't bring myself to try, but my mother swore was the best part, was squirrel brains. She would crack the skull open and suck the brains right out.

Maybe you could do like Vlad the Impaler and kill just a few squrrels and put their skulls up on stakes next to the bird feeder to scare off the others.:ROF
 
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L.L. Bean sells a very effective, but not cheap, bird feeder that the squirrels cannot get into. I bought one for my mother-in-law a few years ago she then began to feel sorry for the little squirrels and disabled the anti-squirrel devise LOL! It has a spring loaded perch for the birds and the squirrels are too heave and push down the perch and close off the food opening
 
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If you have post mounted feeders, use a piece of 3" or 4" PVC pipe around the post, and run it as high as possible. It will also stop racoons from climbing up and getting into feeders. This does really well for me, but won't stop squirrels that jump from trees down onto the feeder.
 
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I had the same problem with squirrels. Got a few 96' Sheppards hooks from TSC and tied off a few of those generic green garden stakes for hanging the bird feeders on shown. Now the squirrels can't reach the hanging feeders but they still eat the seeds off the ground...which is OK with me.
 
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savageactor7 said:
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I had the same problem with squirrels. Got a few 96' Sheppards hooks from TSC and tied off a few of those generic green garden stakes for hanging the bird feeders on shown. Now the squirrels can't reach the hanging feeders but they still eat the seeds off the ground...which is OK with me.
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The squirrels at my place would think that was a circus ride--they would lineup all round the yard!!:ROF :ROF
 
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I had the same issue last summer, I order an animal trap and trapped them one by one and drown them in my pond. Got 8 of the suckers before they wised up. I also caught 3 rancoons and a possem, but I carefully let them go. This summer they were just as bad as last summer. I tired trapping again, but they wised up. I even tried hanging the feeder from an extended branch with no trees around it and had a square piece of plywood with screws sticking up to impale them if they tried to jump down on top of it. That worked for awhile, but when the wind blew strong enough, the feeder was blown sideways and the seed just fell out onto the ground anyway.

Short of burning all the trees to the ground, I dont think there a sure fire way to pervent them from getting to the seed eventually.
 
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I used to feed the squirrels dried corn cobs ,far away from the feeders out in the woods in the back yard,where they were nesting--and that worked pretty well to keep them from raiding the bird feeder..but I stopped feeding the birds because Coyotes were hanging around and eating the seeds AND trying to catch the birds and squirrels..(and our barn cats were catching and eating them too!)..

That, along with lack of funds,I decided to not bother with the bird feeders any more..got sick of Blue Jays raking all the seeds away to get at the sunflower seeds too,and driving me batty with their squwaking..they drove all the "good" birds away,and hogged all the seeds too..the birds often repaid my kindness by perching on the telephone wires above our cars and pooped all over them too...that was the last straw!..:mad:...let 'em find their own food!..
 
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I have seen these round donut like plastic things on the "Ask This Old House". You put these things on the electric wire going to your house, and when the squirell trys to go over the donut when they walk on the wire, the donut spins and the squirells fall to the ground.

Perhaps you could suspend the bird feeder between two posts with a wire. Then place a donut on either side of the feeder, they may not be able to get to the feeder then.
 
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