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Starla in GA
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[ May 09, 2006, 02:21 AM: Message edited by: Bill ]

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From: North Georgia | Registered: Mar 2006  |  IP: Logged
tkhooper
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I know I'm alone in this but chipmunks and squirrels need love too. Great pics starla thanks for sharing.

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Thornius
The Bird Man


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I LOVE it when squirrels come to my feeders. After owning this house for four years I finally got squirrels this year; TWO of them; and I think they are breeding in my yard......YAY! [grin]

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Thornius
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Here are some picture of my two new renters:

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From: Nashville, TN | Registered: May 2005  |  IP: Logged
Starla in GA
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Oh I LOVE my squirrels! We have somuch fun watching them. BUT they will EAT a plastic feeder clean through, so now we make sure to have something more durable AND feeders specificaly for them.

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Pictures of :My back yard "visitors" http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2107551253
My water garden in progress http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2106370269

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patches1414
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What neat pictures Starla and Thornius! Thanks for sharing them. [kissies] I really love to watch the antics of the squirrels and the chipmunks are adorable. [Love] But, those squirrels can really do a number on the bird feeders. [Frown] I've spent a fortune on replacing the plastic bird feeders, but I've also had them chew through one of my wooden ones too. [Roll Eyes] I even put food out for them, but they still go after the bird feeders.

A few years ago I thought the problem was solved when I felt I had found the perfect feeder. [thumb] It had a dome roof that extended over the feeder and another dome-shaped thing that attached to the pole. Well, somehow they managed to jump on top of the dome roof without falling off and they chewed a hole in the top of it to get to the food. [dunno] Of course, it was ruined. [tears]

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Wrennie
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Squirrels teeth never stop growing so they have to continually gnaw to keep them from getting too long. I had some chew an open wooden feeder just for the gnaw of it. They could sit in it with the seed, chew chew chew.

I had a customer in yesterday who wanted a squirrel proof feeder. The one I first showed him is $40. Well that was too much for him. So whats he going to do? Go buy a cheapy $10 one that'll get ruined and replace it 5 times in 1 year? Well now he'l heve spent $50 and still not have a feeder for the next year [nutz]
Any squirrel proof feeder that really works is going to cost a bit more.
And remember, gray squirrels can jump 4 feet straight up, so a baffle has to be more than 4 feet up or he'll jump right over it. And they van jump 15 feet across, from a tree or building to the top of a feeder.

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weezie13
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Starla,
Can you do us a greatttttt big favor and go
back to your photobucket account and resize that gi~ganto picture... [Smile] [thumb] We love the picture, but those who have dial up sometimes have to wait wayyyyyyy tooooooo long to enjoy it.

Also, a hint for you...
Take a sheppards' hook, stand it in the middle of the lawn *nothing around it at alllll so critters can jump to it* but take some vaseline and grease up a good amount of the middle of the pole...

I know how out of control those critters can get,
for two years I lived in a house smack dab in the middle about 100 oak trees, and they were many, many, manyyyyyy wanting to eat my birdfeeders themselves..*chewed right thru them to get at the yummies inside FASTERRRR*

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Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have
done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
- Bible - Hebrews 13:2

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Starla in GA
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Ok I resized it...hope thats better! [flower]

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Pictures of :My back yard "visitors" http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2107551253
My water garden in progress http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=2106370269

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patches1414
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That's much better Starla! [thumb] Thanks! [kissies]

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loz
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Cool pictures!!!

I used to have a squirrel here....then my neighbors cut down the tree it lived in and I haven't noticed anymore since then! It was so funny watching it run across the chain link fence to the birdbath to get a drink.

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Thornius
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I saw a British Red Squirrel on a LIVE feeder cam in Scotland last night, Loz.

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bettyboop1948
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Here is a pic I got some kind of woodpecker
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hope u can see him [flower] [thumb]
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Thornius
The Bird Man


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Your Woodpecker appears to be a male Red-Bellied Woodpecker to me from what I can tell. Do a Google Image Search on, "Red-Bellied Woodpecker" to see if that is what you saw.... When in doubt, Google it!

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cookinmom
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I thought I had fooled our squirrels when I got a new feeder that had an outer piece made of metal that was on springs; the weight of the squirrel pulled the metal piece down, closing the holes so they couldn't get food. So what did they do? Hung by their back feet from a nearby limb, and just reached in and got a snack! We had five out there one morning -- one in the tree throwind down the food, and four on the ground scarfing it up! [dunno]

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