FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Squirrel proofing your bird feeder

["Carole Gobert" <cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is in response to Barry Jernigan's post concerning squirrel proofing 
bird feeders.  After several failed attempts I have managed to obtain 
successful results at my feeders.  One is a spring loaded feeder that I 
bought at Lowes, I think, for about $35, which I have on a pole in my yard.  
I have seen squirrels attempt to get seed from it by reaching over from the 
pole but they have always been thwarted by the spring closing the feeding 
holes the minute they put their paws on it and they appear to have given up 
even trying.  There are about half a dozed squirrels in my yard every day 
and they do enjoy the peanuts I throw out for them and the birds.

I have two bird feeder poles in the yard, the narrow kind (diameter maybe an 
inch), which the squirrels have no trouble climbing.  On the second pole I 
have two feeders, neither of which the squirrels would have trouble feeding 
from if they could reach them.  However, I have suspended a slinky from the 
top of the pole with wire (the pole is inside the slinky) which usually 
defeats their efforts to climb the pole.  Since putting up the slinky 
several months ago I have only on one occasion observed a squirrel on the 
pole above the slinky raiding the bird feeder; don't know how he managed it.

Both of these methods are working for me and have been since last summer.  
Hope this helps.

Carole Gobert
Knoxville, TN
West Knox County





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