{"id":8997,"date":"2021-12-11T16:13:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-11T16:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/?p=8997"},"modified":"2021-12-20T15:20:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T15:20:29","slug":"how-to-stop-squirrels-stealing-bird-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/how-to-stop-squirrels-stealing-bird-food\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Stop Squirrels Stealing Bird Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Squirrels-stealing-bird-food.jpeg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9013\" src=\"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Squirrels-stealing-bird-food.jpeg\" alt=\"Squirrels stealing bird food\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Squirrels-stealing-bird-food.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Squirrels-stealing-bird-food-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Squirrels-stealing-bird-food-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Squirrels-stealing-bird-food-768x432.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Do squirrels bother you?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">No, I don&#8217;t mean do you have a medical condition called &#8220;Squirrels&#8221;!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Let me explain&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Prefer to listen?<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/davidwithington\/embed\/episodes\/How-to-Stop-Squirrels-Stealing-Bird-Food-e1bvcv8\/a-a74jni1\" width=\"400px\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/davidwithington-com\/id1365119702\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Subscribe to my Podcast on\u00a0<strong>Apple<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/3pqSjKsATP4eFOf04u5zvN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Or listen to it on\u00a0<strong>Spotify<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Squirrels used to steal all the food from our bird table.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">So I wrapped the table in chicken wire and made a hole just large enough for the small birds to fly in and out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The bluetits loved it. They no longer had to go hungry.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">But the squirrels didn&#8217;t give up. Eventually, they found a way.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8998\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8998\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Squirrel1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8998\" src=\"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Squirrel1.jpg\" alt=\"The squirrel found a way into the bird table\" width=\"800\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Squirrel1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Squirrel1-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Squirrel1-768x346.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The squirrel found a way into the bird table<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Yep. One cheeky squirrel chewed away at the wooden roof until it could get in and raid the birds&#8217; food.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Thinking cap on&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Rather than buy a new wooden bird table, we decided instead to buy a steel <em>bird feeding station<\/em>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">What&#8217;s a Bird Feeding Station?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">It&#8217;s a steel pole with fancy ironwork to hang bird feeders onto.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">And we also bought a <em>squirrel baffle,<\/em> which attaches to the pole so that squirrels can&#8217;t climb up past it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">They fit together quite neatly, like this&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8999\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8999\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Squirrel2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8999\" src=\"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Squirrel2.jpg\" alt=\"We bought a steel bird feeder and attached a squirrel baffle\" width=\"800\" height=\"1419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Squirrel2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Squirrel2-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Squirrel2-577x1024.jpg 577w, https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Squirrel2-768x1362.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We bought a steel bird feeder and attached a squirrel baffle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">The feeding station also came with a birdbath\/water-bowl.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">And also with a larger feeding bowl for nuts (which isn&#8217;t on this photo&#8230; I&#8217;ll explain why shortly).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">It took just a few minutes to assemble the feeding station, then &#8220;plant&#8221; it into the ground (a rubber mallet does the job perfectly) and then load it with bird food goodies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Job done, Christine and I watched for the bluetits and robins arriving, hoping they&#8217;d notice the brand new garden attraction we&#8217;d got for them and appreciate how much hard work we&#8217;d put into ordering it for them from Amazon!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">We waited&#8230; And we waited&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Suddenly, we noticed that the nuts in the feeding bowl had disappeared.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Surely the squirrels couldn&#8217;t have reached them!?!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">But soon we found the answer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">A rather large pigeon had eaten them all, then had decided to use the feeding bowl as a platform to stand on so it could reach and empty the contents of the seed feeder.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9000\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9000\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Squirrel3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9000\" src=\"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Squirrel3.jpg\" alt=\"Do pigeons ever know when to stop eating?\" width=\"800\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Squirrel3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Squirrel3-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/davidwithington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Squirrel3-768x346.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Do pigeons ever know when to stop eating?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Now that the large bowl has gone, the feeding station has become a nice attraction for the bluetits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">They love it. And we enjoy watching them linger over breakfast.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Squirrel Problem Fixed?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">But what about those squirrels?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Perhaps I shouldn&#8217;t laugh&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">But it really was funny watching a squirrel trying to scramble up the slippery steel pole, only to be frustrated by a domed ceiling&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">And the slow slide back down was even funnier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Yes, the squirrels no longer steal the birds&#8217; food. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">But they still pop round with the hungry pigeons to enjoy the many bits that the birds drop during breakfast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">So everyone&#8217;s happy!<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=GB&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=dwblog-21&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=GB&amp;placement=B00A17WXRK&amp;asins=B00A17WXRK&amp;linkId=8138475bd37ebb78e535f191e0ebe6a8&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=0066c0&amp;bg_color=ffffff\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe>\u00a0 \u00a0 <iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=GB&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=dwblog-21&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=GB&amp;placement=B001E1DTGQ&amp;asins=B001E1DTGQ&amp;linkId=039f628ac2c68e1bb82faca03e2a3201&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=0066c0&amp;bg_color=ffffff\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nThe steel bird feeder and squirrel baffle<br \/>\nwe bought on Amazon (affiliate links)<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 18pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">More in Your InBox<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">I write an email, usually every two or three weeks, for my subscribers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">It often has an amusing story and some good news, always a corny joke, and there&#8217;s a link to my latest content.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">You can join it right here&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do squirrels bother you? 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