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How about moving the feeder onto a post and fitting a barrier round the post to stop the squirrels - I have heard that a "Slinky" works well as they zoom to the ground when they try to climb it....
Either that or a cone of some sort that they can't climb over? or non climb paint?
I could lend you the pup - she likes chasing squirrels.
They jump vertically 2+m and bypass obstacles. I hung a feeder on a 3metre copper wire from a tree with the base 2metres off the ground. They did try to come down it but gave up. Instead they came on the ground and jumped up, grabbed the bottom of the feeders and and hung on. The are ingenious creatures and I don’t mind them in the garden but with 3 or 4, the monopolise the feeders that are there for the small birds….that need help.
I wouldn’t mind so much but the stripped out walnut tree of nuts and buried them everywhere. “Go and dig up a nut!”
I then have a myriad of walnut trees growing in the beds that need pulling up. We’ve potted dozens and given them to friends. But most of them won’t be alive to see the trees producing nuts.
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