I recently had some rare good fortune and won a squirrel feeder through one of @SoarMillSeeds regular competitions on Twitter. This is what I won: Wildlife World Squirrel Feeder. It arrived the next day, but I waited until the seemingly never ending gales did actually end before putting it up. It has one hole at the top, but I replaced one of the hinge screws with a longer one so that I could fix it to a tree with two screws. The squirrels seem to like playing on this tree and it was away from the bird feeders.
The squirrels ignored it for nearly a week. Gradually they started to approach it. I had put some loose peanuts on the top of it which they ate, but then ignored the squirrel food (also provided as part of my win) inside it.
I had propped open the lid by placing…
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be carfeful! i had a squirrel in my loft and it was so noisy/annoying. I eventually used a cage trap and some peanuts to catch it and released it in the woods a few miles away. I don’t really miss it too much 🙂
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It’s a reblog from a friend 😉 Here in my region in Belgium squirrel aren’t very friendly and don’t come near home 😦
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you are lucky! 🙂
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😀
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