How To Keep Squirrels Away From Your Bird's Food. By Marina Benson

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.