Subject: Re: Squirrels
Date: Jun 16 22:12:18 1997
From: "Christy Anderson" - christya at gte.net


I have had good luck with the squirrel baffles that look like black stove
pipes and hang on a ring fastened tightly around the pole the feeder is on.
Although my yard is wooded, there is enough open space that I can put the
pole feeders far enough away that the squirrels can't jump on the feeders,
and they can't climb the poles. I've had them for several years, and never
had a squirrel in any of my pole feeders. (Knock on wood! I don't want to
tempt fate!)

I also have a metal feeder with one of the spring loaded "porches" that
drop to cover the seed supply with any weight heavier than you set it for.
It works OK most of the time, but since it's just on my deck rail, the
squirrels come up to clean up the seed underneath it, and occasionally,
they have succeeded in getting on the moving trap gently enough that it
doesn't go down, and they can pig out. I also saw a mouse on it once. So
I'd stick with the pole feeders and the metal tubular baffles.