myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers) (01/12/85)
I live in a cozy, small home neighborhood in Madison, WI, a town of about 250,000. We've got a couple of feeders hanging from our clothesline pole, and we also scatter food on the ground and porch. Our most common customers are Slate Juncos and the ever popular House Sparrow. Other regulars are Cardinals, Black Capped Chickadees, and Pine Siskins. Irregulars are White Breasted Nuthatches, White Throated Sparrows, and American Tree Sparrows. Our biggest problem is fighting off the squirrels. The other day one of the little buggers actually ripped the plastic top off of one of the feeders. Whenever we manage to catch them, we have a sporting time by driving them off with salvoes from our trusty BB gun. Is there a less violent, more effective way to keep them from scaring off the birds? Apologies to Friends of the Squirrel.
sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten) (01/15/85)
> Is there a less violent, more effective way to keep them from scaring off > the birds? > There is an ad running in Organic Gardening, last I saw, for a squirrel- proof bird feeder, which automatically closes under the weight of a squirrel, but which is normally open to birds. -- {ucbvax,decvax,ihnp4}!sun!sunny
thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas) (01/18/85)
In article <1948@sun.uucp> sunny@sun.uucp (Sunny Kirsten) writes: >There is an ad running in Organic Gardening, last I saw, for a squirrel- >proof bird feeder, which automatically closes under the weight of a >squirrel, but which is normally open to birds. My folks have one of these, it works great. We used to have lots of problems with squirrels, but no more. It's really fun to watch the little fuzzy buggers try to outwit the feeder. They haven't gotten in yet. -- =Spencer ({ihnp4,decvax}!utah-cs!thomas, thomas@utah-cs.ARPA) <<< Silly quote of the week >>>