On Mar 14, 12:22 am, Martin Pentreath
wrote:
On 13 Mar, 18:13, JimK wrote:



On Mar 13, 5:50 pm, "Nightjar \"cpb\"@" "insertmysurnamehere wrote:

JimK wrote:
concerted effort to defeat squirrels scoffing bird feed..

A waste of time IMO

http://www.webtvhub.com/squirrel-mis...eo-squirrel-sh...

Colin Bignell

maybe but those vids are almost obviously intended to entertain not
actually prevent the feckers succeeding.

Witness the success of those plastic dome shields when sited optimally
- i.e. away from potential aerial "launch sites" that the furry
feckers can jump from directly onto the feeder....

Plus mine's a metal wire rope which makes it conductive.... :) fx:
manic laughter

Cheers
JimK

I went down the suspend-the-feeder-from-the-wire route - they learnt
to shimmy along the wire within 24 hours. I put plastic baffles (made
from flowerpots) on the wire, they learnt to leap from trees and
bushes. The only place in the garden I could suspend the feeder where
they perhaps would have struggled to jump onto it would have looked
ridiculous. The solution is to buy something like this:

http://shortlinks.co.uk/vw4

mmm OK with nuts I think, we have a similar for seed (allegedly) and
the grey feckers swing on it and then "hoover" up the seed from the
pan at the bottom...

Cheers
JimK