Squirrels!!!

External Since: Dec 25, 2004 Posts: 218

"dyork" wrote

> That's the same way as my squirrels. I got the same kind of BB's the
> plastic ones. And after a while, you can shoot at them and it doesn't faze
> them. Where are you that you don't have any squirrels?

Thanks, Donna, for spelling "faze" correctly in context.

:-)

External Since: Aug 03, 2005 Posts: 72

That's the same way as my squirrels. I got the same kind of BB's the plastic
ones. And after a while, you can shoot at them and it doesn't faze them.
Where are you that you don't have any squirrels?

"Jan Owen" <janowen1 DeleteThis @cox.net> wrote in message
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> "dyork" <dyork DeleteThis @carolina.rr.com> wrote in message
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>> Well Tammie I really don't want to feed those pest. I've done everything
>> I can to get rid of them. I even bought a BB gun and that doesn't even
>> phase them, they just sit there and continue to eat.
>> But I guess I'm going to have to feed them as much as I hate to. I didn't
>> want to spend any money on the squirrels.
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Donna
>>
>
> We have much the same problem here, with white wing doves (but,
> thankfully,
> NOT with squirrels)... We don't want to feed or encourage the white
> wings,
> but they are determined to eat, and, worse, they'll literally fly at, and
> land on top of, other birds that land on the feeders, scaring them away,
> even from feeders where the white wings can't get at food themselves, or
> where they find it very difficult to get food... They still try to keep
> that food for themselves... They're apparently MUCH smarter than their
> dumber-than-stumps mourning dove cousins, and keep finding ways to defeat
> weight-activated species-specific feeders, even when I modify the feeders
> to
> prevent repetition of some of their tactics...
>
> Once upon a time, I even bought an airsoft bb gun that shoots small hollow
> plastic bb's. The idea being to just pester them, rather than hurt
> them...
> Problem was, they were so determined to get at the food, that, after the
> first few times, you could shoot them each fifty times and not phase
> them...
> I finally gave THAT up, and just removed the suet feeders, and more or
> less
> resigned myself to losing a certain percentage of the seed to them ww's
> during
> the +/- six months they're here... Thank God we're about halfway through
> another year of those white-winged feathered locusts... At least the
> OTHER
> half of the year is much less trying...
>
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>> "bthache" <bthache DeleteThis @yahoo.ca> wrote in message
>> news:ANeji.89841$xq1.21775@pd7urf1no...
>>> Deep breaths, Donna, deep breaths!!
>>>
>>> I had to tell my elderly neighbour that if she's going to feed the
>>> birds, she's going to feed chipmunks and squirrels too. One just goes
>>> hand in hand with the other.
>>>
>>> Have you tried putting something out just for the squirrels in another
>>> part of your yard? I have no idea if that helps or not (I've never
>>> tried it) but I've heard it suggested many times. There are squirrel
>>> feeders that you just fill with peanuts and hang AWAY from where you
>>> regularly feed the birds. Could you try something like that?
>>> --
>>> Tammie
>>> In Ontario, Canada, North of Lake Superior
>>> http://community.webshots.com/user/thache
>>>
>>>
>>> "dyork" <dyork DeleteThis @carolina.rr.com> wrote in message
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>>>> I'm still hating these pesky SQUIRRELS!!!
>>>> I find them hanging of my SQUIRREL PROOF feeders several times a day.
>>>> They just get on my last nerve!!
>>>>
>>>> Donna in N.C.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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