One of the best ways that you can ensure successful bird feeding in your yard is to carefully consider the placement of your feeders. Baffles and seed choice are also important, but if feeders are easily accessible to critters, you’ll be fighting an uphill battle! Squirrels are amazing acrobats, leaping to feeders that are 4–5′ off the ground, up to…
As with real estate, it’s “location, location, location” when feeding birds but defeating squirrels. A pole system feeding station set up 12 feet from over-hanging limbs or deck railings with a baffle on the pole 5 feet off the ground provides for squirrel free bird feeding. If your yard does not allow such a set up, there are other options to defeat the…
By Melissa Block, our Wayzata, Minn., Store Manager While you’re away at work, or just having your morning coffee, they are quietly assessing your weak points, looking for any vulnerability. Before you realize it, they launch their attacks – from the air, the land and the trees. We’re talking about those Gumby-like creatures: squirrels. They can eat enormous quantities of…