On 12/29/2011 11:09 PM, Robert Green wrote:
"Home Guy" wrote in message ...

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And maybe buy a few 40-lb bags of black-oil or striped sunflower seeds
and throw some down every few days for the squirrels to eat - instead of
them eating the bark of your trees.

I probably wouldn't do that since my neighbor's multiple and well-stocked
bird feeders are what caused the explosion in the local squirrel population.
With a good supply of food, they'll make a good supply of squirrel pups.
Rodent populations tend to expand very rapidly in the presence of a copious
food source.

Maybe if you laced the feed with birth control hormones . . .

--
Bobby G.


I have a bird feeder on a stand, with a baffle that keeps the squirrels
from climbing up. This summer, the branches of the victim tree in
question started hanging down close the feeder so the squirrels could
drop down from the tree onto the feeder and get the sunflower seeds.
They were very brazen, and if I went out and shooed them away, they were
back about as fast as they could climb the tree and drop down again.
They actually tore the feeder apart trying to get at a few seeds that
had fallen into the cracks between the little boards of the (wooden) feeder.