"TheScullster" wrote in message ...
We have one or two red squirrels around.
Will they put off the birds?
Is there any point in fixing a bird box in a tree which is accessible to
both squirrels and local cats?

We have feral cats, Magpies, Jays, Jackdaws, grey squirrels, sparrow hawks plus a healthy population of garden and
woodland birds. What we also have- which is lacking in many places is plenty of good nesting cover. What we don't have
is much in the way of farmland birds(or other wildlife including plants) - I've watched that dwindling at an increasing
rate over the 27 years we've been here. Human activity - not predation is responsible for almost all of the above.

Rod