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Squirrels Are Mean
I had a great looking bird feeder until recently. It was made of wood and modeled to look like a little book shop.
The squirrel that left this mess must have thought that the seeds would come out faster if he tore the door off. Not too far from this crime scene were the rest of the scattered remains, little books, a sign that said Book Shop and some mini window boxes with little pansies in them. Oh the humanities! With all the doo-dads ripped off it's just a white house now.
It's a good thing the book store was closed at the time and no innocent readers were injured.
Squirrels of New Jersey, you suck!
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We just planted in pots, what seemed like hundreds of amaryllis bulbs we stored from last year. Of course the squirrels dug up several, either looking for nuts or just for the heck of it. After replanting, I gave it a good spray of Dave's Insanity Sauce, incendiary habanero pepper sauce. Just a whiff makes your eyes tear. No more dug up amaryllis. That will teach them to mess around with me.
The squirrels are constantly climbing the iron poles to get at the sunflower seeds we set out for the birds. Last weekend I greased the poles with vaseline and we had fun watching the pesky rodents slide down the pole. Unfortunately they are smart little devils and now just jump onto the feeder from the nearby trees.
They are incredibly strong. They remove the bungeeed cover of a steel trash can we store the seed in. It must take a pull of about 3-5 pound to take the cover off! That's a determined squirrel. NJ squirrels are tough.
By the way, how's that mulch pile going? Any smaller yet?
Today I had to put a makeshift fence around three pagoda dogwood seedlings because I saw squirrels pulling the whips to the ground and rolling in the dirt, and they'd chewed almost all the leaf buds off one of three stems.
Rat bastids!
Steven, I used to do the corn thing too but I agree. They're on their own now.
Oldroses, I've seen those bird feeder and they're pretty cool. I'll have to add one to my wish list.
kellypea, that sounds like a talented cat but my wife is allergic to cats (and sisters). :)
Blackswamp_Girl, my mulch pile is gone but I'm going to have to order more. I only got 1/2 of my beds done. :(
firefly, sounds like it's squirrels in general that are mean and not just squirrels of NJ. Thanks for the report from Maine. :)
For some strange reason I was watching a show about squirrels the other day on the Discovery Channel. Somehow stating the channel makes me feel less weird. Anyway, the people were trying every method known to man to keep squirrels out of their bird feeders. After an hour of various theories being tested, the result was nothing can stop a squirrel from getting what he wants. Nothing.
So don't blame yourself. There was nothing you could have done to save the book store.
The bookstore may be gone now but we will rebuild. :)
The squirrels have learned to recognize the shapes that traditionally dispense food, and systematically destroy anything fitting that description.
Good luck Anthony - but maybe your next little buildings should have aluminum siding!
Annie at the Transplantable Rose