Bookertoo I work at a country park and we had a big problem with grey squirrels in the bird garden. We feed the birds from feeders attached to poles ( they slot into the top) so we attached squirrel baffles ( the plastic domed things) and also catch trays to the poles below the feeders. They work well because if the squirrel tries to climb the pole the baffle is in its way and the baffle and the catch trays move if they try to jump on them. We still get the odd one trying it's luck but they usually end up sitting deservedly underneath waiting for the birds to drop a few titbits. Birds will also feed out in the open quite happily as long as grass is kept short (so they can easily spot any predators creeping up or approaching from above) and there is dense cover ( a tree or shrubbery) nearby that they can take cover in if danger threatens.
We are also overrun by Squirrels here in Toronto Canada,black ones a few grays and small reds.I hang the feeder off of the clothes line and the Squirrels can not reach the feeder.
Charlie N - moles travel by tunnels which can be deep or just below the surface. Whichever, they collapse sooner or later either from rainfall, gravity or people walking on them. In teh former cases they just look unsightly. In the latter they can twist or sprain ankles and twinge dodgy backs/knees/hips most painfully.
If I do happen to catch one live and try and liberate it in the paddock across the stream they squeal and bite and scratch with those flipping digger front claws. Not appreciative at all.
I fail to see what purpose a mole serves. They mess up my lawn, uproot plants when they pass and eat my soil improving worms. In late winter and early spring they run rampant huntig for amate an dthen when the bairns go independent there's another flurry of tunnels and hills as they head of to find their own territory. Flipping pains in bum - and ankle and knee and hip and back depending. Make it jolly bouncy going round on the mower too.
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We are also overrun by Squirrels here in Toronto Canada,black ones a few grays and small reds.I hang the feeder off of the clothes line and the Squirrels can not reach the feeder.
Charlie N - moles travel by tunnels which can be deep or just below the surface. Whichever, they collapse sooner or later either from rainfall, gravity or people walking on them. In teh former cases they just look unsightly. In the latter they can twist or sprain ankles and twinge dodgy backs/knees/hips most painfully.
If I do happen to catch one live and try and liberate it in the paddock across the stream they squeal and bite and scratch with those flipping digger front claws. Not appreciative at all.
I fail to see what purpose a mole serves. They mess up my lawn, uproot plants when they pass and eat my soil improving worms. In late winter and early spring they run rampant huntig for amate an dthen when the bairns go independent there's another flurry of tunnels and hills as they head of to find their own territory. Flipping pains in bum - and ankle and knee and hip and back depending. Make it jolly bouncy going round on the mower too.