Squirrels, how to get rid?
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Easiest option i know of involves one of these...
Theres some decent wildlife in the garden but about 3 or 4 grey squirrels constantly in our garden and in short they just nick all the nuts from the feeder.
So my tactic was to get like a fake eagle or fox (although real foxes do lurk at night) or something after seeing this..
and this..
Or any repelants or anything i can put in the area so they just f
k off into someone elses garden?
Ta!
Theres some decent wildlife in the garden but about 3 or 4 grey squirrels constantly in our garden and in short they just nick all the nuts from the feeder.
So my tactic was to get like a fake eagle or fox (although real foxes do lurk at night) or something after seeing this..
and this..
Or any repelants or anything i can put in the area so they just f
k off into someone elses garden?Ta!
AndyAudi said:
You do get squirel resistant bird feeders.
Yes we have two metal wired ones, that they still cut through 
I did have the idea of sticking the feeder on a metal pole in the garden, covered anti climb paint.
Should stop them for a while, until they do suicide jumps from the tree onto the feeder...
i remember said:
AndyAudi said:
You do get squirel resistant bird feeders.
Yes we have two metal wired ones, that they still cut through I did have the idea of sticking the feeder on a metal pole in the garden, covered anti climb paint.
Should stop them for a while, until they do suicide jumps from the tree onto the feeder...
i remember said:
Yes we have two metal wired ones, that they still cut through
I did have the idea of sticking the feeder on a metal pole in the garden, covered anti climb paint.
Should stop them for a while, until they do suicide jumps from the tree onto the feeder...
I put a feeding pole in the garden with squirrel proof feeders on it. I put olive oil (so not to harm them if they lick it off their feet) up the pole and was quite amusing watching them getting part way up then sliding down again! Although you have to keep putting it on as they wipe it off.I did have the idea of sticking the feeder on a metal pole in the garden, covered anti climb paint.
Should stop them for a while, until they do suicide jumps from the tree onto the feeder...
parents have a wooden bird feeder covered with chicken wire into a box, with small bird sized holes in the side that are too small for a squirel's head
some small birds like robins can fly in, take seeds and fly out all in one motion, ie not stopping
the food put out is for anything that can get it
some small birds like robins can fly in, take seeds and fly out all in one motion, ie not stopping
the food put out is for anything that can get it
markh1 said:
I put a feeding pole in the garden with squirrel proof feeders on it. I put olive oil (so not to harm them if they lick it off their feet) up the pole and was quite amusing watching them getting part way up then sliding down again! Although you have to keep putting it on as they wipe it off.
cut the bottom off a large pop bottle then pass the pole through the neck and run it half way up the pole. The little blighters will climb the pole and enter the bottle - stopped. If it has a larege diameter they cannot get a purchase on the bottle. No doubt the will try the suicide jump from the nearest plant/tree/fencr/etc but they earn anything they can getWhitefly Swatter said:
cut the bottom off a large pop bottle then pass the pole through the neck and run it half way up the pole. The little blighters will climb the pole and enter the bottle - stopped. If it has a larege diameter they cannot get a purchase on the bottle. No doubt the will try the suicide jump from the nearest plant/tree/fencr/etc but they earn anything they can get
Good idea will give that a bash!
Rugbyman said:
Consider them as part of your garden wildlife .......
Set yourself the challenge of making it harder and harder for them to get at the nuts and watch as the ingenious blighters work out how to get at the booty ......
That would be the most human way, as in the most smart, who is more cunning, the squirrel of the human?Set yourself the challenge of making it harder and harder for them to get at the nuts and watch as the ingenious blighters work out how to get at the booty ......
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