MarathonMike
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Pellet gun, squirrel pie, problem solved.
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Does your feeder hang from a tree or is on a pole? If it is on a pole... there are a couple things you can do.
You can actually put a slinky on it.
Another is to spray the pole with oil so they slide off.
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Does your feeder hang from a tree or is on a pole? If it is on a pole... there are a couple things you can do.
You can actually put a slinky on it.
Another is to spray the pole with oil so they slide off.
You didn't watch the "slinky test" vid all the way thru. I was thinking it would work. BUt it doesn't. And I've tried the oil trick and it's fun to watch. But it has to be applied too many times a day.
Does your feeder hang from a tree or is on a pole? If it is on a pole... there are a couple things you can do.
You can actually put a slinky on it.
Another is to spray the pole with oil so they slide off.
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Calm down. Your Utubey links weren't displaying for me. So I was testing WHY I couldn't see them. Sometimes you have to prime the software here to "register" the links as "media". I don't know why. It's a Xenforo issue of some kind. So I "primed" and edited your post after testing. I've deleted it. Wasn't ripping you off.
I had the same problem until I got a shepherds hook and this feeder.
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last year i had a few red squirrels....this year they are on the feeder dawn to dusk...and i am going thru 40 lbs of black oil seed in about 5 days ...that is adding up.....i cant do the baffle cause i have trees ....when the beautiful feeder my hubby made me ...runs out..they chew on it...my hubby is pointing out that the squirrels are totally outta hand....and will just continue to increase.....i love to watch the squirrels ....but this is becoming a huge problem...
so are there really any squirrel proof feeders...brome's they just eat the plastic bottom out....
I had the same problem until I got a shepherds hook and this feeder.
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last year i had a few red squirrels....this year they are on the feeder dawn to dusk...and i am going thru 40 lbs of black oil seed in about 5 days ...that is adding up.....i cant do the baffle cause i have trees ....when the beautiful feeder my hubby made me ...runs out..they chew on it...my hubby is pointing out that the squirrels are totally outta hand....and will just continue to increase.....i love to watch the squirrels ....but this is becoming a huge problem...
so are there really any squirrel proof feeders...brome's they just eat the plastic bottom out....
It's looks nasty but nothing keeps them from eating out of those ports. They've shaved the METAL off of ports on my feeders. Have to replace them every couple years.
Just wage a war with them using tactics like spraying graphite on the poll its fun
Maybe I need to stop doing that. I'm waging a war with groundhogs right now. Apparently they have a hole underneath one of my sheds. They don't seem to like the plastic skirting I put around it.Just wage a war with them using tactics like spraying graphite on the poll its fun
I thought about grease and graphite. But I'd hate to picking up mangled squirrels who get it on them and try to make all those 12 foot leaps 30 feet up in the trees.. Might be good Utube material, but I'd be euthanizing a couple a day..
Might as well just shoot them first.
my cat takes care of those two! she can wipe out a dozen a day, till they are all gone....especially moles....!!!! Thank goodness she does not like to eat them!!! She's simply a KILLER! Field mice, and rabbits....she eats!mole and voles.
Maybe I need to stop doing that. I'm waging a war with groundhogs right now. Apparently they have a hole underneath one of my sheds. They don't seem to like the plastic skirting I put around it.Just wage a war with them using tactics like spraying graphite on the poll its fun
I thought about grease and graphite. But I'd hate to picking up mangled squirrels who get it on them and try to make all those 12 foot leaps 30 feet up in the trees.. Might be good Utube material, but I'd be euthanizing a couple a day..
Might as well just shoot them first.
They don't seem to like the plastic skirting I put around it.
Maybe I need to stop doing that. I'm waging a war with groundhogs right now. Apparently they have a hole underneath one of my sheds. They don't seem to like the plastic skirting I put around it.Just wage a war with them using tactics like spraying graphite on the poll its fun
I thought about grease and graphite. But I'd hate to picking up mangled squirrels who get it on them and try to make all those 12 foot leaps 30 feet up in the trees.. Might be good Utube material, but I'd be euthanizing a couple a day..
Might as well just shoot them first.
They don't seem to like the plastic skirting I put around it.
what kind?
She's simply a KILLER!
I'm allergic to cats yet I have a big old stray tomcat that chose to live in my house. He just picked my house and moved in before I even noticed. He's a 20 pounder fat bastard.She's simply a KILLER!
Uh, you're living with a psycho. You might be next.
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me too! I have it outside in front of the kitchen table window! I love hummingbirds!![]()
That is what I use to put my hummingbird feeders on.
well, I did almost die a couple of days ago, because of her!!She's simply a KILLER!
Uh, you're living with a psycho. You might be next.
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