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05-06-2007, 08:12 AM
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Superb photos! As your squirrel has taken the trouble to dress for dinner, you might try giving some Ritz crackers as a treat! They love them, eat half and bury half in the lawn. The giggle comes when they try to find the buried ones...tee!hee! Corn on the cob should be fun too  |
05-06-2007, 09:19 AM
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One collective noun for that many squirrels is 'a fur coat' lol |
05-06-2007, 09:28 AM
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Originally Posted by Ukwildlifeo  One collective noun for that many squirrels is 'a fur coat' lol |
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05-06-2007, 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Hez Superb photos! As your squirrel has taken the trouble to dress for dinner, you might try giving some Ritz crackers as a treat! They love them, eat half and bury half in the lawn. The giggle comes when they try to find the buried ones...tee!hee! Corn on the cob should be fun too | Caution: Ritz crackers planted in the ground grow into Holiday Inns 
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05-06-2007, 11:08 AM
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Lovely pics.
I know how you feel, not quite so overrun but have up to 4 in the garden at any time...the birds don't stand a chance of getting the food before the squirrels. |
05-06-2007, 12:28 PM
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There are some great ideas here. I like the fur coat one best  Maybe I should start up a new business
They are really entertaining, but I don't want to spends lots of money on feeding them. They are just sooo greedy.
The squirrels this year are not so smart as one that we had last year. I don't know what happened to him, but he was completely fearless. He tried everything to get past the baffle. He squeezed up between the pole and the hole cut in the baffle to fit on the pole. He got around the baffle (it tips, unfortunately) and he would leap from anything close by. One time he even started eating the baffle!
Once he got up there, he decided it was easier to lift off the fat ball feeder and throw it to the ground rather than have to climb up again after I chased him off!
He was a real little character.
Anyway, I am hoping that all will go back to normal again when the acorns start falling.
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05-06-2007, 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by Tursiops2 Caution: Ritz crackers planted in the ground grow into Holiday Inns | lol! I've had a lucky escape then probably thanks to hedgehogs and crows finding them first! |
05-06-2007, 05:00 PM
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In my experience what they like is sunflower hearts. I put special squirrel food and nuts out for them in a feeder of their very own last winter and they just ignored it and kept raiding the feeders.
Here is one of this year's young. He/she hasn't quite got the hang of the feeder yet - sorry about the anthropomorphism, but it should be captioned: "Help! My periscope is upside down!" 
The string (now replaced with wire) is to stop them pushing the bottom off the feeder.  |
14-12-2007, 12:24 AM
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are they all red squirrels?? Wow!!
Thought they were near extinction... |
14-12-2007, 01:04 AM
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Originally Posted by vin_ie are they all red squirrels?? Wow!!
Thought they were near extinction... | No these are grey squirrels, the ones that have been introduced and pushing out the native red squirrerls | | | |
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