Sometimes in
life you just have to learn to go with it – go with the flow. Rather than fight against the current, oft times
it is better to just change your destination and proceed downstream.
I used to
have a couple of small red squirrels that would raid my bird feeders. Then about two years ago a large grey
squirrel showed up – this year there are two grey squirrels. The two original red squirrels had a litter
of babies this summer (I guess you call them a litter): two little mouse size reds that have no fear
of me. Add to this, four chipmunks and I
have a rodent menagerie living in my back yard.
I tried
everything to outsmart the squirrels. I hung
the feeders by concertina wire and put up baffles above the feeders, I greased
the pole of my ground feeder; but nothing seemed to work.
I have finally come to the conclusion that in the
nature order of things, in the food chain, squirrels come before birds; so
trying to feed birds and not the squirrels is against the natural order.
My squirrels
love black oil sunflower seeds; but now I have another problem. Bird scavengers are stealing food from my squirrel
feeders.
BECOME THE WATER GRASSHOPPER.
the Ol’Buzzard
Never ending circle, ain't it?
ReplyDeleteThe little red squirrels are a threatened species. They don't reproduce as fast as the big gray ones and have a narrower habitat range. I like the little red ones, but tend to view gray squirrels as rats in disguise.
ReplyDeleteSquirrels are all fine and good until they get in your attic.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.food.com/recipe/squirrel-stew-like-grandma-made-76112
ReplyDeletebeen there done that - back in the day.
DeleteO'B
Safflower seed...squirrels don't like it, most birds do
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