Feeding the squirrels
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I really don't think many of them miss any meals!!! I guess it depends on the type of squirrel. In North Carolina where my grandparents live, they have these gray squirrels and they are mean, the brown ones aren't too bad, and we have never had any damage caused by them.
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There is a pure white squirrel over a block from me. Except for a few gray tail hairs it is totally white. Up in Minnesota there are black squirrels and a few blocks north of me there are red squirrels. I had one gray squirrel that visited last year with a red tail. Mostly we get gray squirrels.
We have lots of squirrels because we feed them and the birds seem to coexist with them. They just wait their turn at the feeder. Some brave birds will feed on one side of the main feeder while a squirrel is on the other. The squirrel feeder where we feed the sunflower seeds is on a separate post and the birds will visit it while squirrels are at the other one etc. Other birds like doves will feed on the spilled seed on the ground along with many other varieties. We get too many varieties of birds to count or catalog them. We have been asked to count them but we always tell people "be my guest and have at it", for some reason they never do.
I do need to rebuild both of my feeders. They are 20 years old and about shot. The commercial bird feeders don't last a year under heavy use so I designed my own.
We have a bird bath but it needs replacement also. There are a couple streams that stay open year round a short distance away so water is not a big problem.
We did have a ground squirrel (chipmunk) this year for the first time.
We have lots of squirrels because we feed them and the birds seem to coexist with them. They just wait their turn at the feeder. Some brave birds will feed on one side of the main feeder while a squirrel is on the other. The squirrel feeder where we feed the sunflower seeds is on a separate post and the birds will visit it while squirrels are at the other one etc. Other birds like doves will feed on the spilled seed on the ground along with many other varieties. We get too many varieties of birds to count or catalog them. We have been asked to count them but we always tell people "be my guest and have at it", for some reason they never do.
I do need to rebuild both of my feeders. They are 20 years old and about shot. The commercial bird feeders don't last a year under heavy use so I designed my own.
We have a bird bath but it needs replacement also. There are a couple streams that stay open year round a short distance away so water is not a big problem.
We did have a ground squirrel (chipmunk) this year for the first time.
Last edited by Torque1st; Nov 23, 2006 at 08:17 PM.
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