Keeping Away Camp Robbers (1 Viewer)

[BirbNerd13]

For those of you who didn't know (I mentioned it in my intro), I am a squatcher. That means I'm like a bigfoot hunter, but instead of hunting them, I just try to find evidence or to see them myself. Like birding, but with sasquatch.

So I set up a bait site, and a camp robber stole the donuts, the jerky, the twinkie, and some other stuff that I can't remember. It didn't touch the apple pie or the apple.

So is there a way to repel them? If not, I can only use apple bait, nothing else that would likely work better, but if need be, I will only use apple stuff.

Thanks y'all!

 

[nartreb]

By "camp robber" I assume you mean your local species of corvid? (I'm guessing you're in the pacific northwest of the US, where you've got Canada Jays, Steller's Jays, Clark's Nutcrackers, and/or magpies, all of which have been called "camp robber".)

I would not be too surprised if they ate the apple too, if nothing else was available. Often, though, they take food to store it for later, rather than to eat immediately, so quick-spoiling food like fresh fruit is relatively safe -- from jays. Other birds, and rodents and other animals, will probably enjoy it.

I would think that placing the bait in a cage would protect it from birds and rodents (but not bears unless the cage is super-strong, and probably not raccoons unless you use a padlock). Bigfoot might or might not be able to puzzle out the opening mechanism, but that's not the goal - you just want to tempt him into range of a motion-activated camera, right?

 

[raymie]

By "camp robber" I assume you mean your local species of corvid? (I'm guessing you're in the pacific northwest of the US, where you've got Canada Jays, Steller's Jays, Clark's Nutcrackers, and/or magpies, all of which have been called "camp robber".)

I would not be too surprised if they ate the apple too, if nothing else was available. Often, though, they take food to store it for later, rather than to eat immediately, so quick-spoiling food like fresh fruit is relatively safe -- from jays. Other birds, and rodents and other animals, will probably enjoy it.

I would think that placing the bait in a cage would protect it from birds and rodents (but not bears unless the cage is super-strong, and probably not raccoons unless you use a padlock). Bigfoot might or might not be able to puzzle out the opening mechanism, but that's not the goal - you just want to tempt him into range of a motion-activated camera, right?

The name "Camp Robber" usually refers to Gray Jays.