Back to the original thread, we ended up getting a bird feeder pole and putting this up and hanging the feeders off that. It works a treat. the squirrels can't get at the food at all.
I don't know how intelligent your squirrels are but mine seem to have had a college education and wouldn't be deterred by those products. At the moment I have a bird feeder attached to the centre of my washing line which seems to be effective as it is too thin for them to grab hold of, one tried to jump from a nearby shed but failed to hold on.
I have said this on other threads but if you coat your bird food in hot Chilli powder the squirrels will soon learn to avoid it. Birds do not have the heat receptors in their "mouths" like mammals. When I said this before another poster was concerned about other adverse effects on the birds- do not be, in America some peppers are known locally as bird peppers as the birds actively seek them out - they like it.
This in conjunction with baffles & feeders with ports that close under the weight of a large bird let alone a squirrel will all help.
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I copied and pasted the link into another tab and could read the article .... so it is still there.
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A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
Got it, still doesn’t say you need a licence for an air gun, because you don’t. An air rifle is different.
The RSPCA did someone who drowned a squirrel. I no longer support the RSPCA because the good they do is counter-balanced by the harm they do.
Back to the original thread, we ended up getting a bird feeder pole and putting this up and hanging the feeders off that. It works a treat. the squirrels can't get at the food at all.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Gardman-A01158-Universal-Squirrel-Baffle/dp/B001E1DTGQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1514668086&sr=8-1&keywords=squirrel+baffler
https://www.lovegardenbirds.co.uk/gardman-decorative-feeding-station?gclid=CjwKCAiAj53SBRBcEiwAT-3A2LPLiMFc49LnV6u-OdnXdl7gLpEv2d5DReOKdgFJgThImM5ihvAg_RoC4_UQAvD_BwE
I don't know how intelligent your squirrels are but mine seem to have had a college education and wouldn't be deterred by those products. At the moment I have a bird feeder attached to the centre of my washing line which seems to be effective as it is too thin for them to grab hold of, one tried to jump from a nearby shed but failed to hold on.
I have said this on other threads but if you coat your bird food in hot Chilli powder the squirrels will soon learn to avoid it. Birds do not have the heat receptors in their "mouths" like mammals. When I said this before another poster was concerned about other adverse effects on the birds- do not be, in America some peppers are known locally as bird peppers as the birds actively seek them out - they like it.
This in conjunction with baffles & feeders with ports that close under the weight of a large bird let alone a squirrel will all help.