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This morning, when Charlie went out to make coffee, the squirrels had dumped the birdfeeder, found the new encaged feeder hanging by the kitchen window, removed it, opened it, and were sitting around waiting for their scouts to find "the rest of the food" like they weren't all fat and happy now.
It had been a rather pleasant weekend in the backyard, with not only cardinals, robins, thrashers and doves, but wee crested gray birds I can't name, so CUTE. There was only one major squirrel incident when one of them found the bag of seed on the deck and chewed it open. The rest of the time there were only one or two squirrels picking through the leavings. But this morning, that was all over. They keep looking until they find a way to tear up whatever you have, I'm convinced.
Charlie is going all the way out to Stone Mountain to a shop to find anti-squirrel stuff. (This stuff is very sticky. It costs $6 to put it on, $30 to get it OFF!) And we might also SHOOT them. Charlie has become convinced that the low numbers of mosquitos we have this year is partially due to the birds being welcome and frequent visitors to our yard, so he is completely on board with this idea.
The problem is that there are not enough natural predators for the squirrels. The hawks have not taken off with the squirrels as we had hoped. Perhaps our yard is just too small for them to feel confident.
It had been a rather pleasant weekend in the backyard, with not only cardinals, robins, thrashers and doves, but wee crested gray birds I can't name, so CUTE. There was only one major squirrel incident when one of them found the bag of seed on the deck and chewed it open. The rest of the time there were only one or two squirrels picking through the leavings. But this morning, that was all over. They keep looking until they find a way to tear up whatever you have, I'm convinced.
Charlie is going all the way out to Stone Mountain to a shop to find anti-squirrel stuff. (This stuff is very sticky. It costs $6 to put it on, $30 to get it OFF!) And we might also SHOOT them. Charlie has become convinced that the low numbers of mosquitos we have this year is partially due to the birds being welcome and frequent visitors to our yard, so he is completely on board with this idea.
The problem is that there are not enough natural predators for the squirrels. The hawks have not taken off with the squirrels as we had hoped. Perhaps our yard is just too small for them to feel confident.
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Date: 2007-06-26 01:55 pm (UTC)A dog would also scare away the birds, so trying to set up a "filter" that allows birds in, but doesn't allow squirrels to dominate the yard is kind of the trick.
We has the goo. I'm sure there will be updates.