"Holly in France" wrote in message
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It's one of the common ways of dealing with them,

Is it? Oh well, great minds think alike then :-)

It wasn't my idea!

I know, but it was mine! :-) Not originally apparently, but in that I
thought of it independently.

I've occasionally thought of something brilliant and been devastated when
I've discovered it wasn't original. How are the mighty fallen :-)

The older you get the more often it happens, you get used to it ... :-(

But if I wanted to kill squirrels, which I don't, it would have been one
I'd
try.

Perhaps this wasn't clear - I wasn't suggesting it as method of killing
them, just of making them fall off before they reached the birdtable.

They might drown ...

Mary