If this is truly so important to you, then just sit outside all day and watch the bird feeder. As long as you remain relatively motionless, the birds will still come. But when you see a squirrel, just stand up and let him know you’re there — he’ll sit in a tree or on the fence post and yell at you for a while, but eventually he’ll leave and the birds will come back.
(Back in my day, this was called “summer vacation”.)
I always felt bad about people wanting to feed the birds but somehow the squirrels were the villains for wanting access to the goodies too. You put out food, you attract things that eat the food. At least its only squirrels – I have seen deer up end the feeders, and I have seen BEARS up end the feeders. They are significantly harder to thwart.
LookingGlass Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Toby’s next assignment will planning to land a person on the Moon!!
/SNIRK/
Liverlips McCracken Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Toby can’t see the forest. All those trees keep getting in the way.
John Wiley Premium Member almost 4 years ago
Try a metal Slinky™ around the support pole.
Doctor Toon almost 4 years ago
Toby may grow up to be a Super Villain
He will have to hire the mad scientist types, he’s not smart enough
car2ner almost 4 years ago
If you haven’t seen it yet. this is what might be a scaled down version of Toby’s designhttps://youtu.be/hFZFjoX2cGg
car2ner almost 4 years ago
and this one, toohttps://youtu.be/s4YthEm5qIk
Algolei I almost 4 years ago
If this is truly so important to you, then just sit outside all day and watch the bird feeder. As long as you remain relatively motionless, the birds will still come. But when you see a squirrel, just stand up and let him know you’re there — he’ll sit in a tree or on the fence post and yell at you for a while, but eventually he’ll leave and the birds will come back.
(Back in my day, this was called “summer vacation”.)
cuzinron47 almost 4 years ago
If they would just read our comments they would see how to do it.
EowynWolfmoon almost 4 years ago
I always felt bad about people wanting to feed the birds but somehow the squirrels were the villains for wanting access to the goodies too. You put out food, you attract things that eat the food. At least its only squirrels – I have seen deer up end the feeders, and I have seen BEARS up end the feeders. They are significantly harder to thwart.
dogday Premium Member almost 4 years ago