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Talk about frustration! We love our furry friends......all of them......but I'm having issues with our resident squirrel. It seems that he/she has invited friends and family to "sup at our table" (smile)! We researched to find squirrel-proof feeders a couple of years ago and just knew that we had succeeded. Noooootttttttttt!! We've done everything we can to keep the feeders only for our song birds. We even went to the trouble of having a ground-level tray for the squirrels in hopes that they would mend their ways and stop raiding the feeders. Again, Noooottttttttt! I've wired the lids to the frame, I've blocked the feeding openings so that only the small birds have access to them; all to no avail. The lids still get pryed off by our wiley raiders! We haven't had a problem this year until I looked out the window just now to find that the lids are off both feeders and they are e-m-p-t-y! The squirrels are fun and we have always fed them; but, apparently, the feeders are more appealing. What's that saying about "the grass being greener.......???" I guess it applies to bird seed, too! This would not be as much of a concern except that we had a sad situation two years ago. I was horrified when I looked out one day to find the lid off of one of the feeders (squirrel-proof, I might add!) and a Mourning Dove was head-first in the tube feeder with it's head in what remained of the seeds........it had gotten down into the feeder and had no way of getting back out, so it smothered. Unlike the squirrels, they are not flexible enough to wriggle back out after they make a raid. It was so very sad and, after that, I made sure to tie the lids with double strands of twist-ties. This has worked until now. There's got to be a way........and I've put my thinking cap on once again in hopes of finding it.
