Living with the Enemy: Squirrels
How many times have we put food out for the birds only to see it stolen by a squirrel?
Worse still how many feeders have been vandalised or destroyed by this now common garden visitor?
There is a simple solution, provide the squirrel with its own food source, by placing a squirrel feeder in an area of the garden away from bird feeders.
Oaktree Home and Garden supplies both wooden and metal feeders which are specifically designed for squirrels. They enable easy access to the food thus satisfying the squirrels’ appetite and allowing the birds to feed uninterrupted.
Tip: If you are considering buying one of our window feeders, make sure you stick the feeder centrally within the window, this makes it very difficult for a squirrel to get to. If you position the window feeder too close to the window frame the squirrel has something to hold onto and will get to the feeder.
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July 16th, 2007 at 14:33
LOL! I love the title of this post!
I’ve been living with the enemy for awhile now, and have found out a few things, be interesting to hear other thoughts.
Though I will occasionally lose a plant to burrowing foraging squirrels, they generally stay away from most of my garden EXCEPT if I plant dill. Dill is to squirrels as catnip is to cats, or at least that’s been my observation. They will totally destroy it within a day of planting a plug. I tried growing it from seed, but that didn’t fare any better, they dug up the seeds and ate them.
One other thing you folks can try is adding a wild grape arbor. It supplies wild food for the birds to keep them around and allow them to, in some cases, winter over, yet much of the fruit isn’t easily accessible to the squirrels. Another benefit to the grape arbor is fresh grapeleaves for making stuffed grapeleaves. My grapes aren’t human edible, they’re mostly seed and very, very sour.