Squirrels

How about this cheeky chap, he steals all of the fat balls from the bird feeder and then tries for the peanuts. I think I have squirrel proof peanut feeders now but he can still get the fat balls. I could watch him for hours but can't affoprd the time cute as he is.

 

clever little blighters aren't they? Do you regard them as vermin?

cheers

 

Hi Borrowers,
No, we've all got our place in the garden and he is just another borrower. I live right next to a wood(the locals tell me it belongs with the cottage) so really he was here first and I am the interloper.
G.man:rolleyes:

 

Hi G.man my garden squirrel is a quiet soul


Although he needs a good clip now and again just to keep him in line.:DHel.xxx.

 

shouldn't get too many stolen peanuts there Helofadigger. How long before it fills out?

 

I love squirrels. They are beautiful, intelligent and comical.

People treat them as vermin and persecute them for a mistake that MAN made by introducing them where nature had not intended them to be!!!!

Just watch he doesn't ever have any problems with that green netting around the fat balls by eating them or getting tangled up in them.

Kath

 

I agree with you gingernutsmans & cm,
It's horrible the way we are losing all our flora & fauna. Still even though it's bird food I'm sure they don't mind losing a little bit.

cheers

 

Well were i live i get to see a visiting red squirrel every now and then

 

Rest asured, we wont lose the squirel, no matter how many are controled, they breed like rabbits !!

facinating things to watch but do cause a vast amount of damadge, personally Im of the shoot them school of thought.

 

well were i used to live (mainland UK) we had loads of cats so the squirrels generally didn't stand a chance:(

 

here is a story about squirrls and it's absolutly true the story even made the local papers .
when i was working at renault caulsden . A clio car would come in every other week or so . Lack of acceleration and low on power, was the complaint.
when the car first came in it took some time to find out why it was down on power.when we found out the cause we were amased and could not work out how or why :confused:
what we found was the air cleaner was jammed packed full of peanuts.
we thought it might be a nasty nabour putting the nuts up the air cleaner. but as the clio was always parked in the owners garage , that rulled that theory out.

after a bit of investigating it turned out that the owner liked to feed the birds and stored bird food in the garage.
yes you got it the same garage that the clio was parked in.. a checky chappy squirrel was knicking the nuts and storring them up the intake pipe for the air cleaner. after a few visits to the workshop to remove the nuts and several hefty bills later the solution was easy . the clio owner stopped storing bird food in there garge and the prob neaver happened again
:D

 

I no longer use those netted fat balls for the birds since the day I had to rescue a sparrow whose tiny little feet and got caught up and nearly cut off by the netting. Took me ages to untwist the netting and set it free.

 

Hi all,
I stopped using the netting for the fat balls and started putting them in a container ( see my feeder tree ) but the squirel has started spinning the peanut feeders and they unscrew and fall to the deck. The one with the ceramic top and base has been smashed to pieces. I am going to " turn " new top and base in oak and fit back together. May also fit a locking screw on the spindle.
G.man:p

 

this is a vid well worth cliking on
:eek:

 

you dont mess with the squirrels round here:eek::eek::eek: