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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!
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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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What neat pictures Starla and Thornius! Thanks for sharing them. I really love to watch the antics of the squirrels and the chipmunks are adorable. But, those squirrels can really do a number on the bird feeders. 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. 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. 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. Of course, it was ruined.
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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 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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Starla, Can you do us a greatttttt big favor and go back to your photobucket account and resize that gi~ganto picture... 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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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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Here is a pic I got some kind of woodpecker not sure what kind hope u can see him bettyboop1948
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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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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!
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I really love to watch the antics of the squirrels and the chipmunks are adorable. ![[Love]](graemlins/love.gif)
But, those squirrels can really do a number on the bird feeders. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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]](rolleyes.gif)
I even put food out for them, but they still go after the bird feeders. ![[thumb]](graemlins/thumb.gif)
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]](graemlins/dunno.gif)
Of course, it was ruined. ![[tears]](graemlins/crying.gif)
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