Finally relocated all my squirrels

[Art Haberland]

It has taken me months, but I have finally captured and transported all the fuzzy tailed rats from my yard to work. That is a 12 mile trip, across highways and water. As there were no squirrels there originally, they seem to be doing well in their new envions. Now I can now feed my birds in peace without them stealing all the food.

[Canoez]

Re: Finally relocated all my squirrels

It has taken me months, but I have finally captured and transported all the fuzzy tailed rats from my yard to work. That is a 12 mile trip, across highways and water. As there were no squirrels there originally, they seem to be doing well in their new envions. Now I can now feed my birds in peace without them stealing all the food.

Nature abhors a vacuum. Just sayin'.

[CWSmith]

Re: Finally relocated all my squirrels

thanks for the laugh this morning.

+!

Their cousins will be moving in shortly.

[Jim Mahan]

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I have a squirrel-proof bird feeder hanging, one each, in our front and back yards. Squirrel-proof because I hung it on a paracord from thirty feet up and the squirrels can't possibly climb the line or jump the ten feet from the ground or the fifteen feet from the trunk of the tree. One morning a month or so ago, after hanging from the maple limb above the lawn for at least five years, I found the feeder on the ground, with the paracord line it hangs from severed where I put a knotted loop of it on a steel hook about four feet off the ground, screwed into the trunk of the maple. The squirrel, one of them, I think it was Roger, had chewed through the line, right at the connection. I couldn't say if it was an intentional effort to bring down the bird feeder or just an investigatory gustatory dalliance with tasting the paracord. I had to use my slingshot to launch another golf ball with monofilament over the same limb and string a new length of paracord. The paracord itself shows no signs of being weathered into brittleness or worn at the spot where it hangs from the limb. I don't mind the little rodents if they stay out of the attic space and don't eat the insulation off the wiring under the hood of my car.

[Rich Jones]

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My sister's farm had a problem with pigeons. One day a guy shows up and asks if he can shoot a bunch of them off the barn roof.
Why I've no idea. Are they any good for eating?
He shot a couple dozen but about another 200 showed up for the funeral.

During the winter months we feed the birds and lots of red squirrels show up. Come spring, we stop feeding the birds and the squirrels disappear.
Once in a while they get into the eaves and I have to trap them. I take them on a ten-mile trip with two rivers in-between. I've heard that red squirrels are very defensive of their territory and will attack any new squirrels coming into it, so I wonder how they survive. But it's either that or I kill them. I'd rather give them a chance.
I also release them in an area free of houses so I'm not just dumping my problem on to someone else.

[Canoez]

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i have a squirrel-proof bird feeder hanging....

hahahahahahahha!!!

[CWSmith]

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I think the real question is, "What can we do to attract raptors to our property?"

[Lugs]

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Having seen both squirrels and rats with the fur removed, I can assure you that they are indistinguishable. I've not knowingly eaten squirrel, but I have certainly eaten rat. It ain't bad. Stop wasting them. Eat 'em.

[stromborg]

Re: Finally relocated all my squirrels

I think the real question is, "What can we do to attract raptors to our property?"

We've got an assortment of raptors around here, ranging from bald eagles to smaller hawks and plenty of squirrels, rabbits too. I think the eagles go for cats and small dogs, bigger payoff than your average chipmunk.

Healthy coyote population too, beautiful animals.

[Jim Mahan]

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hahahahahahahha!!!

I will swear on something of grave importance, that no mammal of any kind had ever gotten to this birdfeeder since I hung it. (Except me, and I don't count.) Front yard, sunflower seeds get loaded by undoing the loop from the captured carabiner sunk into the maple trunk, and lowering it. In it's current position, it is about eight feet off the front lawn, ten or twelve feet from the maple trunk, and hung from a branch about twenty feet up. Squirrel proof, so far, for seven years, according to Herself. It is really difficult to get a good photograph of the feeder against the background of the the sky and other trees.



I asked Her to get a shot of me for scale, since I am a dog, depending on who you ask. That's the same shirt as the one in my avatar, new hat though.



Back yard. Strung from the fat limb just at the top of the frame, about twenty feet off the ground, and at least that far from the trunk of the oak. The line is a length of baling wire anchored at the oak trunk, and I refill the feeder by getting a step up. Both feeders fill by opening the roof, which are on hinges. I didn't build them, just inherited them from somewhere. She hung a new windchime under it, which jiggles and rings a bit when some larger bird, like a blue jay lands or takes off. She's hung half a dozen windchimes around the estate.

[Canoez]

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Truly, I have yet to see a squirrel-proof feeder. I've seen squirrel-resistant feeders and that resistance only lasts until they figure out how to get there. Have see those ones with the perch that spins when something heavier than a bird lands on it. They rode the damned thing like a carnival ride and when the battery died, they pigged-out. One of my friends had a feeder rigged much as you have. They figured out they could drop in like little fuzzy airborne rangers from above onto the feeder, hang upside down by their toes and fill their faces.

It's only a question of time.

[Jim Mahan]

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I will put up a C-note that nothing without wings or thumbs will ever get a sunflower seed out of one of my feeders.

[Canoez]

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I will put up a C-note that nothing without wings or thumbs will ever get a sunflower seed out of one of my feeders.

Got Fluffy on task, eh?

[Paul Pless]

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[Bobcat]

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Woman I know told me that when she was growing up they had a squirrel in the bird feeder. "Mom, left the kitchen window open and pistol on the counter," she told me. "She shot the squirrel in the ear. Then we ate it. That's what you do in Iowa."