My mom has a bird feeder that closes when squirrels or particularly large birds perch on it. (The perch has a spring mechanism that pulls the feeder hatch closed when anything heavy sits on it.) There are also things called squirrel deflectors. Check the link.How to keep squirrels away from bird feeders?
According to the website ';Better Lawns';, the article entitled ';Squirrel Chasers'; suggests using a mixture of garlic and dried blood around areas of your yard that may attract squirrels. Dried blood may be purchased in lawn and garden stores. It also suggests making a squirrel repellent by soaking several hot peppers in a quart of boiling water overnight. Add mild dish soap to the pepper water and use this mixture as a spray on garden plants. These mixtures should not be used in or around bird feeders, but making your yard and garden unpleasant for squirrels may help discourage them from making your yard and bird feeder part of their territory. There are also commercial repellents available. Ask about them at your local garden center.
I hung my bird feeder from the end of 10' piece of 1/2'; electrical conduit bent in the middle to a 45 degree angle and placed in a hole in a concrete base (from the base straight up, the off at 45, with a heavy wire stuck in the end to hang the bird feeder from. Never had squirrel problems because too small to grip, too steep, too high to leap. If the squirrels are coming down from the top, a cone shaped ';Chinese hat'; loosely mounted on the wire will tilt and dump them. If coming up from bottom a similar device - if they can't jump past it - or one of the spinning plates seems to work well. Some people put out corn on the cob to feed the squirrels away from the birds.
They get hungry to, put a squirrel feeder out for them. and grease the bird feeder pole. Use something like solid Crisco and grease the pole good. Then you can sit back and enjoy the squirrels trying to climb the pole. And it is safe for all ,The squirrels take the food and store it so they will not go hungry.
One of a squirrel's purposes in life is to get into your bird feeders. He has the time and opportunity to spend his whole day figuring it out. Squirrel proof bird feeders exist, but I don't know of any manufacturer that will guarantee 100% that a squirrel won't get in.
use a pole, like one youd hang plants from, and buy squirrel-proof bird feeders. its not 100% squirrel-proof, but it does help somewhat.
Try using fox or mountain lion urine (I'm serious) it'll keep the squirrels away, but not the birds.
Caiyan Pepper works wonders for this trick. The birds don't mind it but the squirrels do.
The mountain lion urine actually does work. I'm not sure where you could find it though.
try putting them on a pole of some sort then the squirrels cant get up to them.
those little buggers!
BB GUN! PAINTBALL GUN! BLOW THOSE SUCKERS AWAY!!!!!
you could try using human hair that always helped me with the little guys.
hmm take down the bird feeders
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