Do you have squirrels who frequently visit your yard looking for something that does not belong to them? Most likely you do.

Keeping the squirrels away from the bird’s food is not a difficult task. I had problems in the past about the squirrels digging into
my bird feeders all the time and I didn’t like that. I don’t like to
hurt animals so I wouldn’t be able to use traps or any other objects of that kind to keep the squirrels away from my bird feeders. I had to do something to solve this problem.

I decided to do some searches on my own to see which technique would keep the squirrels away from the Bird Feeder. I started my search with the squirrel proof bird feeder.

Providing the birds with a Squirrel Proof Birdfeeder will keep the squirrels out of the bird’s food. Some of the squirrel proof bird feeders have adjustable weight settings, seed saver baffle and a seed level indicator window. Others squirrel proof bird feeders have a motor that makes the perch spin, and the squirrels are flipped off of the feeder harmless. The squirrel proof bird feeders are high quality, durable and resistant.

(Squirrel Buster Plus)

When I provided the squirrels with a Squirrel Feeder it kept the squirrels busy. One day I hung a squirrel feeder away from my bird feeder and I watched the squirrels for several weeks to see if they would keep digging into my bird’s food or not. I noticed that they weren’t coming to my bird feeder as often as they used to. I started to provide them every week with corn until they forgot about my bird feeder. The Squngee Deluxe Squirrel Feeder not only kept them away from my bird’s food but the squirrel feeder entertained me too. Now I love to watch the squirrels bouncing up and down on their new toy which always has corn on it.

(Squngee Deluxe Squirrel Feeder)

Nowadays with these tough times everybody has been living in, it has been hard to afford buying corn as often as we would like. I can give you another suggestion to keep the squirrels away from your bird feeder and maybe it is not that expensive.

I have 2 orange trees in my backyard and I saw some of the fruit on the ground getting spoiled. I took some fruit to work and gave some
away to my coworkers, but I still had a lot in my trees. Until one day
I saw one of the squirrels eating one of the oranges. I found out that they love to eat oranges. That scene gave me the idea to provide them with oranges as well as the corn. The oranges are not expensive and they are great source of food for the squirrels and birds, providing them with a means of hydration.

(Squirrel Video)

Another fruit that a customer told me they eat is the coconut. She mentioned that squirrels love to eat coconut and depend on them as a food source. They prefer the fully mature, hard nut, but are perfectly happy to devour an immature nut as well. The coconut provides plenty of nutrition and moisture. They won’t eat spoiled old nuts or immature jelly like meat. The cardinals and chickens love the jelly meat. If the squirrels are extremely hungry they will also eat the tiny, immature nuts the size of golf balls. This is unfortunate since it ruins the stems of future nuts.

(Squirrel eating coconut)

The squirrels stopped eating my bird’s food. They know they don’t belong there and they will get their own food.

My backyard always receives visits from birds and squirrels.

There are all kinds of birds in my backyard such as Cardinals, Blue Jays, Mocking Birds, American Robin, etc.

There’s always something going on in my backyard. I spend hours there watching the birds eating, flying, hiding between branches or singing. I love to stay there and take pictures of the birds and squirrels. Here are some pictures that I took.

Mocking Bird Eggs.	Red Cardinal on the Absolute Squirrel Proof Birdfeeder.
Bird Under Orange Tree.	Egrets.

You may be impressed… but squirrels don’t eat the bird’s food in my backyard because I provide them with food. I always feed the squirrels with corn and I feed the birds with sunflower seeds, safllower seeds and oranges. I used to watch the squirrels always trying to get into my squirrel proof bird feeder until I got them a toy that they could play with. Now I love to watch the squirrels bouncing up and down on the Squngee Bungee Squirrel Feeder (their new toy) which always has corn on it. Something funny! Instead of the squirrels stealing the bird’s food I have noticed some birds have been stealing the food from the squirrels. When the squirrels are gone, (while they have the opportunity) I have seen the cardinals sneaking into the corn and eating the corn as fast as they can. When they notice that the squirrels are coming back they immediately fly to the bird feeder.
Squngee Deluxe Squirrel Feeder	Squirrel Eating Acorns.

In my backyard I have some orange trees. Lately I have noticed that some of the oranges are spread throughout the yard, close to my fence far from the orange trees. That made me question myself about what these oranges are doing around the yard and so far from the trees. I thought that the weather could have spread them around, but I wasn’t sure. So, I decided to spend more time being alert to what was going on in my backyard. I finally found out the reason that there were oranges spread around my yard. One day while I was there taking picture of the birds, I saw a squirrel holding half an orange high in a tree. The squirrel was eating the orange and it wasn’t even scared of my presence. I thought that was so funny that I decided to take pictures of that moment. Now I know that they don’t just eat corn or acorns but they like to eat fruit too. I’m not sure of how they are able to steal the oranges and carry them up high in the trees. Below are the pictures of this funny situation.
The squirrel leaves the Oak Tree.	The Squirrel pauses for a moment before going towards the Fence.
The squirrel can almost reach the orange tree.	The Squirrel jumped off of the fence and stole an orange off of the tree.
After stealing the Orange, he is seen up high in a nearby Oak Tree.	I think he likes his tasty snack.
He regained his hold on the orange so he won’t drop it.	He is devouring the orange. They provide hydration to squirrels so they don’t get too thirsty.

]]> http://site.outdoorbirdfeeders.com/blog/2010/01/26/67/feed/ 0 http://site.outdoorbirdfeeders.com/blog/2009/11/14/squirrels/ http://site.outdoorbirdfeeders.com/blog/2009/11/14/squirrels/#comments Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:29:39 +0000 marina http://site.outdoorbirdfeeders.com/blog/?p=17 Did You Know:

Generally, in spring, the gray squirrels live on whatever buds, roots, bulbs, and flowers are available plus buried stores from the prior season. Natural food sources are your yard plants and trees that provide forage. Supplemental food, such as in a bird feeder is good, but natural foraging sources are even better.

The human help that the critters need is water, (Water can come from a bird bath or very slowly dripping faucet), natural food sources, (such as buds, roots, bulbs, flowers, seeds, berries, and nuts), and shelter, (Squirrels find shelter within the massive branches of the white oak trees that we can plant in our yards.)