Elizabeth Bigg
Addicted member
I have just noticed a picture in the Gallery, posted some while ago showing two squirrels - one on and one IN a "squirrel proof" feeder. I regularly have 2 or 3 squirrels in the garden, but they don't usually bother with the hanging feeders (of the same type as the one shown in the Gallery), probably because there are the ground feeder tables available.
However I have a different sort of feeder, bought many years ago, and this has defeated them. It has to be hung in such a way that a squirrel cannot leap onto it (mine is hung on a wire, suspended on a pole attached to the house wall). It's a very ingenious device - if a squirrel approaches from above (the only way it can gain access), the green section shown just moves down under the squirrel's weight, and covers the nuts.
However I have a different sort of feeder, bought many years ago, and this has defeated them. It has to be hung in such a way that a squirrel cannot leap onto it (mine is hung on a wire, suspended on a pole attached to the house wall). It's a very ingenious device - if a squirrel approaches from above (the only way it can gain access), the green section shown just moves down under the squirrel's weight, and covers the nuts.