Squirrel Control

[afterhours]

i have a couple of determined squirrels that have created havoc around my decks bird feeders- they have destroyed and damaged a number of them. any ideas besides trapping and relocating welcome- i like birds more than squirrels .

[Raven]

yes here's a tip.... and i know this from having a parrot for twenty years.
In the parrot food there was always dried hot jalapeno' peppers.... and i often wondered
why they liked to chew on them.... tried it once and it was a 3 alarm fire in my mouth HOT!
it doesn't affect the birds palate (OR TONGUE) for some reason....

same thing applies to our native Birds: so-> give them a 3 alarm fire in there mouths
buy a CAYENNE pepper bottle of spice or several of them at an outlet store
and put some (dampened with a fine water spray) sunflower seed out for them
with cayenne pepper liberally coated and as they stuff their faces or eat them
they'll soon be running for water,,,

[PRBuzz]

BBs or pellets

[WESTPORTMAFIA]

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[JohnnySaxatilis]

So Good

[spence]

That's why I feed safflower. It's more expensive but the critters don't like it.

My mom swears by the feeders that close automatically when a squirrel jumps onboard.
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[Higgie]

X2 I like the way your mom thinks spence!!!
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[Hookedagain]

I like the way you thing WestportMafia!!!

[Nebe]

Yankee Flipper
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[Raider Ronnie]

Saw 2 Black squirrels last week.
Was a 1st for me.

[OLD GOAT]

Having daughters &city neighbors I couldn't shoot them so when caught in a have a heart trap I would leave for twenty four hours or more until the coyotes tried to get in the trap. at this point when dropping them off at a distance they didn't come back.

Eight squirrels and two raccoons

[FishermanTim]

pellet to the postierior usually drives them away for awhile, but there are so many Ican't tell them apart.

On a side note, my mother knows how I feel about these glorified rats, and she saw something at Newbury Comics that she thought I would get a kick out of.

There are called "Squirrel Underpants"

It's a small pair of Y-fronts, tidy-whities for the tree rat.

I laughed my arse off at this gag gift.

If you get a chance, look for them online, and you'll see what I mean.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by Raider Ronnie

Saw 2 Black squirrels last week.
Was a 1st for me.

Black squirrels are... as i saw many there 40 years ago
more than i could count

so it seems their genetic traits have moved southeast
quite a distance....

[JohnnyD]

Counting the one this morning, I think I'm up to 19-20 of the tree rats "removed from the population" since we moved into our house in December. Gamo Bigcat 1200 from about 30 yards away.