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Deter squirrels (only) from bird feeders?
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. Spraying the metal pole with WD-40 stops the squirrels as they slither around and can't climb it, but this lasts only a couple of days, and costs more than the peanuts if I kept refreshing the WD-40. I suspect that someting other than WD-40, such as soap or an oil, would no last much longer before the little critters are able to shin up the pole again. (The pole etc is not near a tree of fence, but the squirrels cross the lawn to it and race up it - amusing the first few times, but now infuriating! Can anyone suggest a low-cost deterrent which will not harm the squirrels but would allow the other birds (Most of which seem to prefer peanuts to wild bird seed) to feed on the peanuts? Thanks in advance for any advice, Bill. |
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