Comments on: Nature Moments: Outsmarting Squirrels http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2018/03/nature-moments-outsmarting-squirrels/ A repository for Bowdoin news archives Wed, 14 Nov 2018 20:25:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.11 By: MICHAEL GRAFF http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2018/03/nature-moments-outsmarting-squirrels/comment-page-1/#comment-121706 Wed, 07 Mar 2018 13:28:20 +0000 http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/?p=145824#comment-121706 Dear Prof. Nat,
I went through an evolution similar to your squirrel video when I found chain to be the only material that wouldn’t get chewed apart. However, the squirrels learned to climb above the chain and hoist the feeder up to them. I anchored the feeder with a chain going to the ground. The squirrels climbed into the tree and threw themselves against the feeder which dislodged seeds which they retrieved from the ground. They were very resourceful. I never found a 100% foolproof solution.

]]> By: Eric M Weis http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2018/03/nature-moments-outsmarting-squirrels/comment-page-1/#comment-121591 Tue, 06 Mar 2018 23:52:02 +0000 http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/?p=145824#comment-121591 I have a backyard bird feeding hobby. I have MOSTLY outsmarted the rodents; I designed my own squirrel-proof post feeder with TWO baffles, plus metal sheathing which they find tough to climb.

But for squirrels, this is a matter of life and death, being able to get food. So I leave one feeder which is relatively accessible, filled with sunflower seed.

Now, if I can only figure out how to defeat the deer birds from stealing seed.

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