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| Posted: Thu Nov 21st, 2024 20:33 |
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chrisbet
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There is a horrible device that lures them in with bait and stabs them in the neck with a CO2 powered device - supposed to be humane but not always a swift death ....
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| Posted: Thu Nov 21st, 2024 22:37 |
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Eric
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I reckon if I get a 12v electric pulse generator, put the positive to the metal feeders hanger and a negative earth from a plate fixed on the end of the supporting branch, a squirrel will short circuit the system if it leaves its rear legs on the branch plate as it grabs the feeder top. The only risk is if Jan sees me doing it….she will reposition the device and connect the terminals to my …….  It’s getting a bit annoying with upto 4 squirrels disturbing the feeding zone. For the first time this year I had a Great Spotted Woodpecker, greenfinchs , chaffinchs and goldfinches in numbers happily feeding together…then up come the tree rats and everyone left for a good hour or more. Time they can’t miss in this weather. Rant over.
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| Posted: Thu Nov 21st, 2024 22:46 |
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chrisbet
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How about moving the feeder onto a post and fitting a barrier round the post to stop the squirrels - I have heard that a "Slinky" works well as they zoom to the ground when they try to climb it.... Either that or a cone of some sort that they can't climb over? or non climb paint? I could lend you the pup - she likes chasing squirrels.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 22nd, 2024 10:26 |
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Eric
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chrisbet wrote:How about moving the feeder onto a post and fitting a barrier round the post to stop the squirrels - I have heard that a "Slinky" works well as they zoom to the ground when they try to climb it.... They jump vertically 2+m and bypass obstacles. I hung a feeder on a 3metre copper wire from a tree with the base 2metres off the ground. They did try to come down it but gave up. Instead they came on the ground and jumped up, grabbed the bottom of the feeders and and hung on. The are ingenious creatures and I don’t mind them in the garden but with 3 or 4, the monopolise the feeders that are there for the small birds….that need help. I wouldn’t mind so much but the stripped out walnut tree of nuts and buried them everywhere. “Go and dig up a nut!” I then have a myriad of walnut trees growing in the beds that need pulling up. We’ve potted dozens and given them to friends. But most of them won’t be alive to see the trees producing nuts.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 22nd, 2024 13:30 |
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chrisbet
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How about fixing something like THIS to the bottom of the feeder ? Then hang it from the high branch with wire. Could make a cone out of wire - maybe coat hangers - like a garden rake - should give them nothing to cling onto.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 22nd, 2024 14:15 |
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Eric
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chrisbet wrote:How about fixing something like THIS to the bottom of the feeder ? Then hang it from the high branch with wire. Thx. Will get one and give it a try. I did have a lash up using brown plastic garden saucers a couple of years back and it did deter them. But they looked naff and soon got split taking them on and off to refill. This design would be better. The main problem I guess is the siting of the feeders. We have a half dead Prunus and I use it’s dead branches to hang the feeders and take photos of birds on the branches rather than on the ugly feeders. I may have to reposition them because the squirrels can jump from adjacent branches and bypass the domes. We shall see.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 22nd, 2024 14:22 |
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chrisbet
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Another idea - use fishing line to suspend between tree / post and house / another tree / post - as long as the feeder is high enough and far enough away from trees it should be squirrel proof - the line will be too thin and wobbly for them - could also reel it in on pulleys to refil feeder from upstairs window????
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| Posted: Sat Nov 23rd, 2024 17:23 |
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Eric
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chrisbet wrote:Another idea - use fishing line to suspend between tree / post and house / another tree / post - as long as the feeder is high enough and far enough away from trees it should be squirrel proof - the line will be too thin and wobbly for them - could also reel it in on pulleys to refil feeder from upstairs window???? Now this is probably why they pay you half a crown more than me. 
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| Posted: Sat Nov 23rd, 2024 20:15 |
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chrisbet
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and I only get 3/6d
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| Posted: Fri Dec 13th, 2024 13:21 |
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Iain
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A Bank Vole that loves peanuts. A1103389 by Iain Clyne, on Flickr
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