SQUIRREL FEEDER

Thu, Dec 6, 2007, 4:04pm [email protected] (John) doth sayeth:
My late mother-in-law had her bird feeder in an open area of the yard
(no jumping from a tree branch) and mounted on a smooth metal pole -
which she regularly greased with Vaseline. No squirrels made it to the
feeder, but some really did try ;-)

Well yeah, that's about the only way, and while it would be
amusing, that's not much of a anti-squirrel challenge.



JOAT
Even Popeye didn't eat his spinach until he had to.

If you are really trying to feed just the birds and keep the squirrels from
eating the seed there's only one feeder on the market that I know of that is
absolutely squirrel proof. With one of these you can feed the birds and get
real entertainment when the squirrels try to eat. I know of two
installations that have been feeding only the birds for several years. The
squirrels have to eat what the birds drop on the ground, or they can try to
eat from the feeder and get the ride of their lives instead.

http://www.yankeeflipper.com/droll/index.cfm

Be sure to watch the video on this website. It's hilarious.

Charley

"J T" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Thu, Dec 6, 2007, 4:04pm [email protected] (John) doth sayeth:
> My late mother-in-law had her bird feeder in an open area of the yard
> (no jumping from a tree branch) and mounted on a smooth metal pole -
> which she regularly greased with Vaseline. No squirrels made it to the
> feeder, but some really did try ;-)
>
> Well yeah, that's about the only way, and while it would be
> amusing, that's not much of a anti-squirrel challenge.
>
>
>
> JOAT
> Even Popeye didn't eat his spinach until he had to.
>

Fri, Dec 7, 2007, 11:32am (EST-3) [email protected] (GROVER) doth
sayeth:
I heard that Lyndon Johnson fancied a late night snack from the White
House kitchen of a squirrel sandwich, most probably served on Texas
toast,
=A0=A0There's no accounting for taste.

Spoken like a man that's never tasted squirrel. Very tasty, but I
find it quite rich, maybe from the nut diet. Squirrel gravy is
delicious.



JOAT
Even Popeye didn't eat his spinach until he had to.

Thu, Dec 6, 2007, 4:17pm From: [email protected] (Greg=A0G.)
J T said:
Or, you can just use bird feeder plans, same thing in the end.
That's for sure.
Personally, looking at this makes me start thinking about making
something that would really make squirrels work... Sometimes it just
takes small things to amuse me.
There are many bird feeders here. I've tried just about everything to
keep the squirrels out. Nothing works for long. They are the most
persistent little rodents I've ever encountered. They even ate through
the house walls before replacing the siding with fibrous concrete.
I've tried baffles, they leap 30 feet from tree limbs above and land,
sometimes, on the feeders. Makes quite a racket when they hit. I've
tried grease, silicon, infra-red detectors rigged to water jets,
slingshots, and electric shock. I'll have to admit to laughing pretty
hard watching them leap into the air, writhing in confusion upon
application of a good shock. But they fixed the problem by severing the
electrical cord in the one spot it was exposed - repeatedly. Smart
little bas#$*&s. They won - I gave up trying.

I saw a show on TV, Discovery, or Animal Planet, probably. Showed
scientists' efforts to try to outwit squirrels raiding 'bird' feeders.
They fialed miserabl, the scientists that is. But got some interesting,
and hilarious, results. At one feeder the squirrels could not reach it
in any way except by jumping from a tree branch to the side of a house,
where they then jumped to the feeder. The scientists found that a
degree wrong angle, any direction, and the squirrel would miss the
feeder. If I recall right, it only took about 7 tries for the squirrels
to catch on. They also tried clear plastic tubes (squirrel trails?),
and so on. Something like this, Rube Goldberg style, is about what I
was thinking of trying. I don't figure on beating them, too many trees
for one thing, but should provide a lot of amusement, both from watching
the squirrels, and from thinking up new alternatives.

The little bastards use my roof as a shorcu or something too. I'll
here what shounds like a tiny horse running across my roof every so
often. Amazing how such a small animal can sound so large running
across a roof.



JOAT
Even Popeye didn't eat his spinach until he had to.

This is worth the time to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8YZIhlWpS0



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Thu, Dec 6, 2007, 4:17pm From: [email protected] (Greg G.)
J T said:
Or, you can just use bird feeder plans, same thing in the end.
That's for sure.
Personally, looking at this makes me start thinking about making
something that would really make squirrels work... Sometimes it just
takes small things to amuse me.
There are many bird feeders here. I've tried just about everything to
keep the squirrels out. Nothing works for long. They are the most
persistent little rodents I've ever encountered. They even ate through
the house walls before replacing the siding with fibrous concrete.
I've tried baffles, they leap 30 feet from tree limbs above and land,
sometimes, on the feeders. Makes quite a racket when they hit. I've
tried grease, silicon, infra-red detectors rigged to water jets,
slingshots, and electric shock. I'll have to admit to laughing pretty
hard watching them leap into the air, writhing in confusion upon
application of a good shock. But they fixed the problem by severing the
electrical cord in the one spot it was exposed - repeatedly. Smart
little bas#$*&s. They won - I gave up trying.

I saw a show on TV, Discovery, or Animal Planet, probably. Showed
scientists' efforts to try to outwit squirrels raiding 'bird' feeders.
They fialed miserabl, the scientists that is. But got some interesting,
and hilarious, results. At one feeder the squirrels could not reach it
in any way except by jumping from a tree branch to the side of a house,
where they then jumped to the feeder. The scientists found that a
degree wrong angle, any direction, and the squirrel would miss the
feeder. If I recall right, it only took about 7 tries for the squirrels
to catch on. They also tried clear plastic tubes (squirrel trails?),
and so on. Something like this, Rube Goldberg style, is about what I
was thinking of trying. I don't figure on beating them, too many trees
for one thing, but should provide a lot of amusement, both from watching
the squirrels, and from thinking up new alternatives.

The little bastards use my roof as a shorcu or something too. I'll
here what shounds like a tiny horse running across my roof every so
often. Amazing how such a small animal can sound so large running
across a roof.



JOAT
Even Popeye didn't eat his spinach until he had to.