Squirrel problem beyond bird feeders....?

Question

Everyone has problems with squirrels eating all the bird seed. We have several flowering plants on the back porch. the squirrels are now starting to eat the plants bare! I could kill them!! All we have now are potted sticks. They have an entire forrest back there to eat. We run them off every chance we get, but as we all know, they just come right back. we can't patrol the back porch all day. How do we stop them?

Answer 1

You can coat the seed with chile pepper, birds dont mind it.

Answer 2

I have bird feeders and a forested area inhabited by squirrels beyond my backyard. Squirrels destroyed my birdfeeders, ate my neighbors' hostas, and ate fruit off my trees.

What did I do? I bought a landscape timber, put a squirrel feeder on it, filled it with black-oil sunflower seeds, and put it in a FAR corner of my backyard by the woods. In the 2 years since, only 1 squirrel has ventured past the squirrel feeder, and it was a baby.

This is a cheaper, more humane solution than squirrel-proof bird feeders, dogs, squirrel scarers, shotguns, poison, traps, and yelling "get!" everytime you see them. As squirrels stake out their territory, this feeder will not attract more squirrels; it will only feed the ones that already live there.

My neighbors thought I was nuts; now they appreciate my squirrel feeder.

Answer 3

I hung my chicken feeder from the tip of 10' piece of a million/2" electric powered conduit bent interior the midsection to a 40 5 degree attitude and placed in a hollow in a concrete base (from the backside immediately up, the off at 40 5, with a heavy cord caught interior the tip to hold the chicken feeder from. by no ability had squirrel issues because of the fact too small to grip, too steep, too intense to bounce. If the squirrels are coming down from the precise, a cone formed "chinese language hat" loosely fixed on the cord will tilt and unload them. If arising from backside an identical gadget - in the event that they are able to't leap previous it - or between the spinning plates looks to paintings nicely. some human beings placed out corn on the cob to feed the squirrels faraway from the birds.

Answer 4

Predatorpee works great! Either fox or coyote pee. It tells the squirrels that they're being hunted and they'll leave.

I had a friend that had squirrels eating her house! She used the coyote pee and they were gone in days. The urine doesn't harm the birds as they do not have much of a sense of smell.

Answer 5

try one (or a few) of these:
-fake predator(like an owl)... some even move and make noise
-hanging reflective things(like blank cds)- they see their own reflection and get scared
-somethings noisy, like chimes
-a commercial repellant that smells like a predator and scares them
-or put a wire barrier all of the way around the plants

Answer 6

try hanging a plastic owl around the plants and move it about every 3 days

Answer 7

Try this aged old trick. Spread a liberal amount of common moth balls around your shrubs and plants.

Answer 8

Squirrel Proof.....
All I can Give:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBiNAkcOC3Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nI2ZXXKzJE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FFU7KmhXEw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ky-rhmrnDgQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Osb29B-7uj4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WN6SNKJp7E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cSQnJoC8bo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT31oTG-3Ic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QywHHfIghP8

Hugs, and Don't bother chasing those Fat Squirrels!