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Jun 2020
9:24am, 9 Jun 2020
3,936 posts
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steve45
Possible Hobby high over my house yesterday evening. "Possible" though is not good enough!Reed, Cetti's this morning as usual plus singing Goldcrest in suitable breeding habitat.
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Jun 2020
9:28am, 9 Jun 2020
42,901 posts
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Derby Tup
Hobby is a classic ‘possible’ bird along with merlin
Stef has just told me she thinks the great tit parents are back for a second brood!
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Jun 2020
10:50am, 9 Jun 2020
3,141 posts
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12barDavid
Time to move this bird feeder.
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Jun 2020
10:53am, 9 Jun 2020
10,177 posts
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rf_fozzy
The squirrels have chewed one of my feeders to bits and had a go at one of the others.
I need a way of discouraging them. Or getting a squirrel feeder to distract them.
They've been nibbling some of my other plants after lily-gate the other week too.
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Jun 2020
10:55am, 9 Jun 2020
13,689 posts
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Yorkshire Pie
We have a squirrel feeder but just ended up with more squirrels. We used to have 2 regulars, now it is more like 4 or 5. At least 3 of them have built a new nest in the tree that overlooks our garden... (we watched them building it last night!)
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Jun 2020
11:06am, 9 Jun 2020
3,142 posts
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12barDavid
Don't laugh, it's true I tell you. Our other bird feeders are squirrel proof. The trouble is, the squirrels climb on top of the feeders & do a disco dance on top of them to make the feeders swing about. Thus shaking the seeds to the ground. They then shin down the bird feeder pole & eat the seeds on the ground.
We had the woodpecker visit again this morning. He certainly likes to peck at the bird balls in one of the feeders. Which is the only one the squirrels can't seem to get their greedy claws on.
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Jun 2020
11:07am, 9 Jun 2020
13,690 posts
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Yorkshire Pie
Just spotted a sparrow fledgling  the blue tits are also back for the first time in a few days. The robin seems to have disappeared though
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Jun 2020
11:10am, 9 Jun 2020
10,178 posts
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rf_fozzy
If they just jumped up and down and shook the seeds loose, I wouldn't mind that - but they've been destroying my bird feeders totally.
Don't quite know what to do.
I don't know how to discourage squirrels
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Jun 2020
11:30am, 9 Jun 2020
30,166 posts
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Mrs Jigs (Luverlylegs)
When you find out please let me know, we have at least 4 squirrels that decimate the feeders.
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Jun 2020
11:37am, 9 Jun 2020
13,691 posts
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Yorkshire Pie
Our squirrels don’t destroy the feeders at least, it’s more about making sure we don’t leave them too full overnight. During the day we can bang on the window of the squirrels are eating too much bird food, it’s the 6am squirrel feeding frenzy which tends to empty them!
Thankfully we have a new type of fat balls which the squirrels don’t seem to like as much as the old ones.
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