ken wrote:
I stopped feeding squirrels and birds last year becasue rats came and
ate the sunflower seeds - i have 2 questions - do rats bother with
peanuts? and Is there some kind of see i can put out that will not
attract rats?

thanks

ken

There is no seeds or nuts that will not attract rats, they will eat almost
anything including (but not restricted to) candles, soap, any kind of meat -
raw or cooked, any other animal living (smaller than the rat obviously!) or
dead (regardless of size) any kind of vegetation, basically anything that is
edible they will eat, seeds and nuts are their preferred diet though and I
don't think there's anything that birds will eat that rats won't, I had this
trouble about a fortnight ago, first from the squirrels and then the rats,
the only solution was to suspend the feeder at the end of a very thin
branch...even now the blackbirds and other large-ish birds can't feed but
the bluetits etc can, for some reason robins won't cling onto a mesh feeder
though, they will only eat while stood upright.