Thanks for stopping back! I almost forgot about how bad our squirrel problems were a couple of years ago! We didn’t do a whole lot in the short term, kind of putting up with them for the winter, but made some long term changes to avert a future problem.

After watching these squirrels eat ravenously all winter long, we decided to remove our bird feeder in the spring, and did not bring it back the next winter. We didn’t want to remove it in the middle of the winter, when animals may have been dependent on it, but we felt things had gone too far to keep it there long term.

Last summer, our large elm trees (where many of the squirrels lived) caught dutch elm disease, and we had to remove them. Although we were sad to see our shade trees go, we have had very few squirrel problems since.

What happened with the squirrels? I have been anxiously awaiting a squirrel update!

Cheers,
Janey

I was intrigued by this comment because the commenter (it was not me) used one of my E-mail addresses in the E-mail line. This one sure got my attention in the list of comments!

Since no one will write about my squirrel problem, I wanted to bring up spear throwing as a possible solution to rid the squirrels from the feeder. Looks like a website is not as beneficial in removing the squirrels as I had hoped :/

Tom