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Apple fanboy

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Feb 21, 2012
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My uncle B watching us biking
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Clearly faked. No one would ride that colour bike with those mittens! ;)
 

Hughmac

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Feb 4, 2012
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If the bird feeder is on a pole - lubricant the pole so the invaders slide down if they try to climb it.
It's a wooden fence post, but they've already tried to climb it and keep falling off. Also, the table at the top is a large plastic tray, and they wouldn't be able to negotiate it to get onto it.
You might get some tips from this or at least avoid some pitfalls:
Seen that, and yes these rats seem as clever as squirrels.
I must have been succeeding because today they were running around searching for food, with no luck in our garden ;)

Cheers :)

Hugh
 
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anotherscotsman

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Squirrels are often known as tree-rats. Mind you, pigeons are flying rats...?
It's a wooden fence post, but they've already tried to climb it and keep falling off. Also, the table at the top is a large plastic tray, and they wouldn't be able to negotiate it to get onto it.

Seen that, and yes these rats seem as clever as squirrels.
I must have been succeeding because today they were running around searching for food, with no luck in our garden ;)

Cheers :)

Hugh
 
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Darmok N Jalad

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I hang our feeder on a free branch suspended on maybe 10 feet of wire. The squirrels would actually jump from the the trunk of the tree to get to it...until I moved the feeder car enough down the branch. Now they don't bother. Then again, there is no need, as the sparrows just fling most the the seed out of the feeder to the ground in a matter of a couple days. Then all the critters get to forage. It does help the ground feeders, like morning doves.
 
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