Rodents- BAH!
I don’t INTEND to feed them constantly. My goal is to feed the BIRDS. We’ve been enjoying all the birds coming to my yard, including some beautiful cardinals and chickadees!
But apparently, the squirrels have discovered the feast that is in my bird feeder. I filled up the feeder three days ago, and now it’s bone dry! Unbelievable! I thought perhaps we had an influx of hungry birds, but my son said, “Oh no; I saw the squirrels dumping seed all over the ground so they could get to it.”
From what I hear, squirrels are almost IMPOSSIBLE to deter from bird seed feeders. The only solution is to get a squirrel-proof feeder. *sigh*
Well, it’s a good thing I like Buy.com so muchand they always have stuff on sale. I spotted this nice feeder for $32 at Buy.com. It’s called the Heritage Farms Birds’ Choice Squirrel Proof Feeder! How’s that for a name. And it’s birds’ choice! lol. I like the old-fashioned green paint color. That would match my house and yard perfectly. It looks pretty high-tech! What do you think? Think it’ll be the birds’ choice? It had better not be squirrel’s choice! Next thing you know, I’ll have to get an air siren to scatter all the dang rodents and deer that are infiltrating my yard! SHEESH!
17. March 2010 at 4:35 pm
Whoa! Is that squirrel for real?
18. March 2010 at 3:23 am
I’m pretty sure it must be photoshopped! I do want to say that I wouldn’t mind if some squirrels came over and ate out of the bird feeder my human set up outside our office window – squirrels, birds, it’s all eye candy to me!
18. March 2010 at 2:01 pm
We finally succeeded in deterring squirrels by mounting our feeder on a steel pole, then once or twice a season we grease the pole with vaseline. It works great and it’s really funny to watch the squirrels try to get up it, LOL!
18. March 2010 at 2:19 pm
I have always had trouble with the squirrels eating all the bird seed too. That feeder that you are getting that is squirrel proof looks great. If I had the money I might get one too. But I have to be careful also because of all the cats here. Don’t want them to catch the birds so I have to do some planning also.