Here's a thought, why not put a squirrel feeder next to the bird feeder?

Don't give the squirrels names! You'll never get rid of them!

You'll have to send them Christmas cards!

Amateur.

Trance750: bim1154: Dookie-chute: Just kill it with a bb gun, this is why Canada will never rule the world.

Canada gave us Justin Bieber and Nickleback. Their pecking order was in the toilet long ago.

And Celine Deon

But they did give us hockey, so I'll give em a pass on the 3 crappy singers.

ReapTheChaos: Here's a thought, why not put a squirrel feeder next to the bird feeder?

CSB - it just attracts more squirrels and chipmunks. They don't leave the bird feeder alone. You've just added another option to the buffet.

Silly yuppy, shoot the farking thing before you have a panic attack.

Trance750: bim1154: Dookie-chute: Just kill it with a bb gun, this is why Canada will never rule the world.

Canada gave us Justin Bieber and Nickleback. Their pecking order was in the toilet long ago.

And Celine Deon

For export only.

And you're welcome to them.

And don't forget Bryan Adams, Leonard Cohen and Anne Murray.

On the other hand, there's the Guess Who (American Woman) and Steppenwolfe (Born to Wild),The Tragically Hip, and the Barenaked Ladies, plus a lot of guys with a good sense of humour, like Moxy Früvous, and all those lesbian folksingers on the CBC. (It sometimes seems they have nothing but lesbian folksingers.)

Personally I like Jack Soul, Bedouin Soundclash, k-os and Oscar Peterson. But then, I'm over 50 so I don't give a flying fig. I know the only truly hip music is advertised on telephone poles. Did I mention that Henry Rollins was at the United Church of Canada on O'Connor Street recently?

Henry Rollins, born 1961.

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*fap*fap*fap*

BASTARDS!


I hate them with their long tails and stupid twitchy noses!

Instead of getting mad at the squirrels, he should just relax and take photos of them like I do.

squirrels on tree branch? sticky rat traps

Minktastic Mink!: BASTARDS!


I hate them with their long tails and stupid twitchy noses!

They aren't just cute like everybody supposes?

This is a sad fu*kin' song
We'll be lucky if I don't bust out crying

How does it feel?
Your night light, your curling iron
Lit up by the sweat of others,
For many's the day
But not from November to May

The floor is littered
With woodchips and apple cores
And hulls of acorns
There is a chattering sound

Because they were squirrels; real squirrels.
(And there were thousands)
This isn't some kind of metaphor,
Goddamn, this is real

Yeah, well wait till they sign the concordat with the gophers. That guy is doomed.

GORDON: Minktastic Mink!: BASTARDS!


I hate them with their long tails and stupid twitchy noses!

They aren't just cute like everybody supposes?

And whats with all the almonds? What do they need such good brainpower for anyway?

Bit'O'Gristle: [www.gamousa.com image 640x148]

1650 fps pellet gun will end your worries.

This is Ottawa. Land of the overpaid bureaucrat.

You'll need permits from at least five levels of government to own and use one of those.

Lord Jubjub: Snakeophelia: As someone who just finished pouring red pepper flakes into the bird feeder - supposedly squirrels hate that but birds don't notice - I'm getting a real kick out of this discussion. Our squirrel gang has a clear leader, White Tail, who doesn't even run when our car pulls into the driveway

That is the whole point of capsaicin for the pepper plant. Mammalian mouths have receptors that recognize it but birds don't. Birds also don't digest the vital parts of the seed. It passes through and is pooped out somewhere else. Voila! propagation for the pepper plant.

You learn something new every day.

However, White Tail is either part bird or super squirrel, because the red pepper flakes didn't slow him down one bit. Tomorrow I grease the bird feeder pole with Crisco.

Snakeophelia:
However, White Tail is either part bird or super squirrel, because the red pepper flakes didn't slow him down one bit. Tomorrow I grease the bird feeder pole with Crisco.

You can buy a perfectly capable bb gun is $30 at walmart

/you could also hook a fender up to the pole, which shouldn't hurt the birds but will surprise the hell out of the tree rat when he goes to climb up

Voiceofreason01: Snakeophelia:
However, White Tail is either part bird or super squirrel, because the red pepper flakes didn't slow him down one bit. Tomorrow I grease the bird feeder pole with Crisco.

You can buy a perfectly capable bb gun is $30 at walmart

/you could also hook a fender up to the pole, which shouldn't hurt the birds but will surprise the hell out of the tree rat when he goes to climb up

"fencer"

/ignore my spelling

bim1154: Canada gave us Justin Bieber and Nickleback.

And you took them...

bim1154: Their pecking order was in the toilet long ago.

So, you're really screwed then.

Someone wrote a book about this.

http://www.amazon.com/Outwitting-Squi rrels-Stratagems-Dramatically-Mi s appropriation/dp/1556523025/ref=cm_cr_ pr_product_top

Snakeophelia:
Go to your local hardware store or wherever they sell bird feeders/houses/seed/garden stuff.
Buy a metal squirrel baffle - torpedo-style looks nicer, but cones work just as well. Look for the black ones made by Audubon. They should come with a mounting bracket that can be tightened-down onto a skinny shepherd's crook.
Install the baffle about four feet up or so. That ought to stop the chipmunks and squirrels.
Also make sure your shepherd's crook is about seven or eight feet away from all trees and bushes, to ensure the vermin can't climb up a bush and jump over.

Greasing the pole works, but you have to re-grease it at least twice a week. A baffle would be much easier.

I thought we had a deal with the chipmunks?

Voiceofreason01: Voiceofreason01: Snakeophelia:
However, White Tail is either part bird or super squirrel, because the red pepper flakes didn't slow him down one bit. Tomorrow I grease the bird feeder pole with Crisco.

You can buy a perfectly capable bb gun is $30 at walmart

/you could also hook a fender up to the pole, which shouldn't hurt the birds but will surprise the hell out of the tree rat when he goes to climb up

"fencer"

/ignore my spelling

I thought you were right the first time. A fender on a pole would surprise the hell out of me.

Lord Jubjub: Snakeophelia: As someone who just finished pouring red pepper flakes into the bird feeder - supposedly squirrels hate that but birds don't notice - I'm getting a real kick out of this discussion. Our squirrel gang has a clear leader, White Tail, who doesn't even run when our car pulls into the driveway

That is the whole point of capsaicin for the pepper plant. Mammalian mouths have receptors that recognize it but birds don't. Birds also don't digest the vital parts of the seed. It passes through and is pooped out somewhere else. Voila! propagation for the pepper plant.

Yep. Birds also have dry mouths, and saliva is necessary to carry the capsicum around the inside of the mouth. My parrots eat bell peppers and habaneros with the same enthusiasm, as far as I can tell they don't taste the difference at all. I could probably feed them ghost peppers and get the same reaction, although that would probably make cleaning their shiat up interesting.

/has had reactions to capsicum on exposed skin

Snakeophelia: Lord Jubjub: Snakeophelia: As someone who just finished pouring red pepper flakes into the bird feeder - supposedly squirrels hate that but birds don't notice - I'm getting a real kick out of this discussion. Our squirrel gang has a clear leader, White Tail, who doesn't even run when our car pulls into the driveway

That is the whole point of capsaicin for the pepper plant. Mammalian mouths have receptors that recognize it but birds don't. Birds also don't digest the vital parts of the seed. It passes through and is pooped out somewhere else. Voila! propagation for the pepper plant.

You learn something new every day.

However, White Tail is either part bird or super squirrel, because the red pepper flakes didn't slow him down one bit. Tomorrow I grease the bird feeder pole with Crisco.

Unfortunately squirrels can learn to like the taste of red pepper, even prefer it. Just like humans.

/fap?

Squirrels are messengers from God.

Hawnkee: Squirrels are messengers from God delicious.

FTFY

i.r.id10t: Hawnkee: Squirrels are messengers from God delicious.

FTFY

True. God never said we couldn't eat his messengers.

We have that problem this week and for the past several weeks. Squirrels in the bird feeder. It's been giving our old golden retriever good exercise but while he's fleet afoot, he's on the slow side upstairs and doesn't remember it's "chase squirrels time" whenever we let him out. Nice dog...dumb as a sack of hammers though.

Next week we won't have a squirrel problem as this weekend we'll be retrieving the boy's BB gun that he keeps at his grandparents house which we'll be returning from Sunday evening.

Sunday squirrel problem. Monday squirrelmageddon.

Wulfhardt: Snakeophelia:
Go to your local hardware store or wherever they sell bird feeders/houses/seed/garden stuff.
Buy a metal squirrel baffle - torpedo-style looks nicer, but cones work just as well. Look for the black ones made by Audubon. They should come with a mounting bracket that can be tightened-down onto a skinny shepherd's crook.
Install the baffle about four feet up or so. That ought to stop the chipmunks and squirrels.
Also make sure your shepherd's crook is about seven or eight feet away from all trees and bushes, to ensure the vermin can't climb up a bush and jump over.

Greasing the pole works, but you have to re-grease it at least twice a week. A baffle would be much easier.

The sheperd's crook is indeed away from everything else; from my observations, the squirrels can't get to the bird feeder itself without climbing directly up the crook. I greatly appreciate the advice for squirrel-proofing everything - this is our first time living in a squirrel- (and rabbit-) infested neighborhood. My guess is shooting a BB gun would scare the neighbors and attract the police, so we have to resort to other methods.

CSB time!

My uncle grew some castor bean plants one year and decided to store a mayonnaise jar full of the beans to plant the next year. He put the jar on a shelf in his garage. Come winter time the squirrels were getting hungry, so they chewed their way into the garage and found (among other things) the jar of castor beans. My uncle said they chewed through the lid and made off with about half the jar's beans. Now for those of you who don't know, castor beans contain a deadly poison called Ricin. My uncle's neighborhood was squirrel-free for the next two years.

/CSB done.

Wulfhardt: Snakeophelia:
Go to your local hardware store or wherever they sell bird feeders/houses/seed/garden stuff.
Buy a metal squirrel baffle - torpedo-style looks nicer, but cones work just as well. Look for the black ones made by Audubon. They should come with a mounting bracket that can be tightened-down onto a skinny shepherd's crook.
Install the baffle about four feet up or so. That ought to stop the chipmunks and squirrels.
Also make sure your shepherd's crook is about seven or eight feet away from all trees and bushes, to ensure the vermin can't climb up a bush and jump over.

Greasing the pole works, but you have to re-grease it at least twice a week. A baffle would be much easier.

Grease can work. It leads to interesting encounters. I've got night-time trail-cam pictures of coyotes, raccoons, and foxes licking the bird-feeder pole in my backyard.

SharkaPult: Wulfhardt: Snakeophelia:
Go to your local hardware store or wherever they sell bird feeders/houses/seed/garden stuff.
Buy a metal squirrel baffle - torpedo-style looks nicer, but cones work just as well. Look for the black ones made by Audubon. They should come with a mounting bracket that can be tightened-down onto a skinny shepherd's crook.
Install the baffle about four feet up or so. That ought to stop the chipmunks and squirrels.
Also make sure your shepherd's crook is about seven or eight feet away from all trees and bushes, to ensure the vermin can't climb up a bush and jump over.

Greasing the pole works, but you have to re-grease it at least twice a week. A baffle would be much easier.

Grease can work. It leads to interesting encounters. I've got night-time trail-cam pictures of coyotes, raccoons, and foxes licking the bird-feeder pole in my backyard.

Cooking spray works just fine and doesn't permanently injure the little bastards.

And, is funny as Hell to watch.

No video of the squirrel-a-pult yet?

Some inventive sadist discovered a new use for a skeet thrower, or whatever they're called. As it turns out, squirrels fly pretty damned far.

/not looking for the video, we just feed the damn squirrels separately