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Off Topic => Anything Goes => Topic started by: Joe on February 08, 2009, 04:12:44 PM

Title: Squirrel Proof Feeder
Post by: Joe on February 08, 2009, 04:12:44 PM

What is the best feeder/techniques you've used to keep the squirrels out?  
I know what the products say, but the proof is in the backyard!  
Baffles?  Long rope to hang them (the feeders, not the squirrels)? Small openings in the feeder?
Feel free to attach a photo of your feeder.

Thanks,
Joe

Title: Squirrel Buster
Post by: wbtc on February 09, 2009, 08:30:28 AM

The best squirrel proof bird feeder was invented by a Canadian. It is called the squirrel buster. It has a lifetime warranty and is guaranteed squirrel proof. You can get one at almost any specialty wild bird store.

http://www.bromebirdcare.com/sbpe-home.html (http://www.bromebirdcare.com/sbpe-home.html)

In Toronto they are sold at Birdwatch on Avenue Road and Wild Bird on Mt. Pleasant

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Post by: RKD on February 09, 2009, 09:36:46 AM

My husband battled with the squirrels for years as I sat back (chuckling to myself) and told him every time it wont work and sure enough the next day they will have figured it out. BUT he finally got it right . We've had this contraption up for about 5 years now and never one squirrel has conqured it. They have stopped trying.

It's basically an old tried and failed squirrel proofer disk thingy under which is an old coffee tin open on one end and a hole in the other to slip over the post, to which he screwed a two foot section of furness pipe. The whole thing sits loosely over the fitting of the squirrel proof disk so it flops around if touched.
By the way yesterday we counted 9 squirrels in the backyard.

(http://i283.photobucket.com/albums/kk307/scoliboymom/IMG_0623-1.jpg)

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Post by: qmnonic on February 09, 2009, 03:54:38 PM

I've got a somewhat simpler approach to squirrel proofing my feeders that is surprisingly effective.

Whenever I fill my feeders, I drop a few peanuts around the base of the feeder.  The squirrels end up being so busy fighting for and hiding the peanuts from one another, they leave the bird feeders alone.

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Post by: Joe on February 13, 2009, 08:09:46 AM

Thanks everyone.  I'll keep you posted.

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Post by: Misty01 on February 14, 2009, 07:45:57 PM

Here's a picture of the feeder my hubby bought me. It keeps the squirrles and morning doves out by closing the holes when a certain amount of weight is on it. Also we hang it from the corner of our awning and the squirles don't even leap at it. Guess they are happy just eating the leftovers and out of the window feeder :) I think he got it at Zellers lol

(http://i303.photobucket.com/albums/nn123/lastcast01/IMG_1121.jpg)

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Post by: Axeman on February 17, 2009, 09:47:34 AM

This may sound a tad simple...and maybe it only works in my neck of the woods...but I hang my feeders on sheppard hooks....I try to place them away from trees....and on those rare occasions where I did encounter a particularly resourceful squirrel, I greased the hooks with vaseline....I also grease the hook I hang my hummingbird feeder on to thwart marauding ants.

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Post by: florabirdie on March 04, 2009, 05:13:41 PM

slap me but I love and feed the squirrels too :twisted:

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Post by: Joe on March 04, 2009, 06:21:19 PM

I really enjoy the squirrels in my yard as well, but they empty my feeder so quickly and scatter the birds whenever they show up.

Joe

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Post by: florabirdie on March 04, 2009, 09:11:33 PM

I feed them as well!birds and squirrels survive together in the forest as well as our backyards :wink:

(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b224/Florabirdie/florabirdie2/feb2009228jpg88.jpg)

(http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b224/Florabirdie/florabirdie2/feb2009085jpg66.jpg)

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