How To Keep Squirrels Away from Your Birdseed

"Squirrels are eating all my birdseed. How do I make them stop?"

To attract a variety of birds, you need to put up many types of feeders and stock them with various seeds, fruits and nectar. Squirrels like free food too. They will find a way to get at the seeds in your feeders -- even if you think you have outsmarted them!

Some people give up and put out ears of corn for the squirrels in an effort to keep them from eating the more expensive sunflower seeds in their hanging tube feeders. About the best you can do is to hang your seed feeder well away from the trunk of the tree. You also need a large Plexiglas dome over the top of the feeder. If the squirrel can't jump up to reach your feeder and he can't jump out, then the only way is down. When they reach the dome, they slip off. Having said this, you may as well sit down and watch the show because they will try and try again -- and they WILL succeed!

Some feeders have a mechanism that closes when anything heavier than a bird lands on it to eat. When it is closed, nothing can get at the seeds. This might work.

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