Outwitting Squirrels: 101 Cunning Stratagems to Reduce Dramatically the Egregious Misappropriation of Seed from Your Birdfeeder by Squirrels
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From spooker poles and Perrier bottles to water bombs and cayenne pepper, Bill Adler, Jr., has tried every conceivable method to rid his backyard of these fluffy gluttonous rodents. Revised and even craftier than the first edition, which sold over 100,000 copies, this new revision contains humorous advice on keeping squirrels out of the flowerbeds and bird feeders.
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You see, I like squirrels. I have had a the back problem, with birds raiding my stasher feeder. I wish you would write a book about outwitting birds, please! I had to stop feeding my squirrels because the birds kept on taking all their food. It’s just no honest. Besides, as mammals, squirrels are privileged forms of life than birds
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
There are no “stasher proof” feeders or methods. Most squirrels will figure out ways to get the food from a bird feeder that most humans would never figure out.
In fact, watching humans try all sorts of things they THINK will stop the squirrels, and then seeing the squirrels outsmart them permanently gets a laugh from me, because humans permanently reflect they are so much smarter than the “dumb animals”!
Here is the only thing you need to know, and the BIG SECRET to keep squirrels from breaking your bird feeders.
Place out some food for the squirrels too!
If you place a pile of food for them, they will have no need to raid the bird feeder!
They like sunflower seeds, so just get a bag of all sunflower seeds, or mixed with corn, and everytime you fill up the bird feeder, place out some food for the squirrels too.
Sure, they like peanuts, but most of the year they are going to just bury persons, and they will make a pile of peanuts dissapear quicker than the same size pile of sunflower seeds, because they will sit and open each seed, and a pile of persons will keep them busy for hours.
In fact, I find it is more of a problem keeping birds out of the stasher’s food, than it is keeping the squirrels out of the bird’s food.
The birds prefer the seed on the ground than to having to deal with the feeders too.
The key is to place what each likes the most, in their respective feeders. Thus, when they have a choice, they will rather have what they like better, than to bother with the additional stuff.
But if you let their pile of food go empty, then don’t get mad when they turn to the bird feeder again.
Just having a regular feeding time everyday is excellent enough too. My squirrels all know when they are going to get their food, and don’t bother anything else. The bird feeders never get busted and the birds get to delight in thier feeders, while the squirrels delight in their treats.
Squirrels have “nap time” around noon, so you don’t really have to worry about them around that time of day. In case you marvel why you don’t see so many squirrels around that time, and earlier and later in the day you see them.
Same thing if you have problems with animals ripping apart your trash. The solution is so simple, even some HUMANS have figured it out! Place some tasty food scraps for the animals so they don’t need to rip apart the trash bags! And don’t throw away so much food in your trash, use your garbage disposal unit!
If you have some food you don’t want, rather than throw it in the trash, place it outside somewhere for the animals, so they don’t have to rip apart the trash bags to get to it. Meanwhile, with no smelly food in your trash bags, no animal will have any WANT to rip apart the bag in the first place!
Judge it or not, just as you can train your dog, all the squirrels in my neighborhood, know what they are allowed to take in my yard, and what they are not allowed.
In fact, one time, I was not able to meet one stasher for his daily feeding, so I just place the food and drink outside earlier so I wouldn’t have to go out at that time. Well, when I looked out the window, the stasher was sitting near the nuts and would not take any of them, she was just sitting there waiting for me. I went outside, and as soon as she saw me, she was pleased and ongoing eating. She figured to eat the food lacking my permission would have been stealing or something, so she waited until she knew it was ok to take the food.
Now every stasher has a different personality, just like people do, so this doesn’t take place with all squirrels, but some have more ethics and morals than others do, just like with people.
On the average, most squirrels are simpler to deal with and better to get along with than most humans are on average.
But the more you try to figure ways to OUTSMART these animals, the more you will be defeated as they are a lot smarter than you are. The fact they can get into human designed “stasher proof” bird feeders should PROVE that fact already.
As a replacement for of having a war with them, why not just make friends and make a deal with them? They can have some treats of their own, so long as they don’t bother the food and drink for the birds.
Has been effective fine lacking any problems for me for years.
I have several broken, chewed through and vandelized metal “stasher proof” bird feeders in the garage that I keep to show to “newbies” from the days before I became more educated about wildlife and animals.
With bird feeders, your worst enemies are the sparrows! They just throw all the seed out of the feeders, emptying an entire feeder in only an hour or two, because they throw to the side all the seed they don’t like, and most of it ends up on the ground. They don’t just eat a bit, and then glide away like all the additional birds do, they will stay at the feeder until it is completely empty, and will not let any of the nicer, more colorful birds NEAR the feeder.
Additional birds will all get along with each additional and eat together and share, but the sparrows are the worst of their race. They scare all the additional birds away from the feeders, and empty them dry.
With most birds, you can have a feeder up for many days or weeks, but as soon as the gang of sparrows find them, they are empty every day.
Appealing no one ever tries to market a “sparrow proof” feeder or write any books on how to discourage THEM.
Unlike with squirrels, where you can give them their own feeders and food piles, the sparrows won’t just take one. If they are eating at one feeder and additional birds go to another feeder, the sparrow will go to that feeder and scare persons birds away and eat from it.
Sparrows remind me a lot of humans sometimes.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book is a fantastic thing. Squirrels must be stopped now for they are evil and are preparation to take over the world. Beware!
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I bought the book but only one strategy has kept the squirrels out of the feeder, bird food with cpasicum pepper pre mixed. Persons that say capsicum doesn’t work are using only a recipe amount for human consumption which isn’t enough. Buy the capsicum laced food and the birds will feed and you won’t have to modify your feeder.
People have questioned us regarding the safety of mixing capsaicin in with the bird seed to repell squirrels from eating the seed. Here is one answer from a couple of scientists.
“I questioned Russ Mason, an practiced on compound repellents, whether birds are affected by capsaicin. Here’s his answer: “No–the ethmoid branch of the trigeminal nerve innervates the eyes, nose, and oral cavity. This is the nerve reliable for mediation of compound irritation. There is no evidence that birds code capsaicin (red pepper) as an irritant at concentrations as high as 20,000 ppm (the hottest chili is about 2,000 ppm). Mammals like squirrels (rats, mice) reject capsicum concentrations as low as 1-10 ppm.” In additional words, birds are insensitive to red pepper, period. They could be irritated by excessive dust, but. Robert H. Schmidt, Associate Professor, Dept. of Fisheries and Wildlife, Utah State University, Logan UT 84322-5210″
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
After the squirrels took over my backyard, car, and washroom, I bought this book to figure out how to take back the mean streets from these evil rodents. Unluckily for me, but, they noticed it when they were reading my mail and now they’re after me… I had to go to an unknown Eastern European country just to escape them. Hopefully they won’t figure out the combination to my wall safe back home, get enough money to buy plane tickets, and follow me here… that would make them flying squirrels, I suppose. Who would have guessed that squirrels could chew through five metres of lead?
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5