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Bill Smith writes
Our garden backs onto a strip of municipal woodland. We have a metal
support for hanging cage-type bird feeders, and attract a good number
and variety of small birds.

We also attract many pigeons, which can't properly cope with the cage
around the feeders, but also three or four grey squirrels which pay a
visit several times a day.

They don't tend to go for the bird seed feeder, but go instead for the
peanut feeder, having learnt to clamber inside the cage part and feed
upside-down on the peanuts in an inner, small-meshed cage. A pack of
peanuts costs me 99p, and one, thanks almost entirely to the squirrels,
lasts a day at the most.

My peanut feeder is suspended at the bottom of the Vee formed by a piece
of tough fishing line, which is suspended from the house eaves at one
end , and is passed over a tree branch at the other end.
The tails of line at either end can be used to raise or lower the feeder
for refilling.

The feeder is about 12ft off the ground, and no squirrel can negotiate
the fishing line, they can't get a grip. :-)
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Gordon H
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