Don’t overdo it – make the hole as small as possible to save yourself headache later. – or, you need to cut a larger hole in your metal cap so that it will fit over the bends in the shepherd’s hook. Robert improvised one out of two semicircles of cedar planking.
– a different type of cap that goes on in two pieces and doesn’t have to slip over the top of the pole. Robert Fenchel, thanks for the solution to shepherd’s hook poles! In a nutshell, you need to wrap the stove pipe around the pole before hooking it together. Shave off their cute tail and what do you have? A rat that lives in trees. If you want to feed your animals some wild game meat, make sure to freeze the meat for at least three days to kill any parasites. In many areas, relocating them is forbidden and veterinarian clinics, by law, have to put down Eastern Greys on sight. Make sure that you are targeting the Eastern Gray and not the native species which are protected. 22 pellet rifle with a well placed shot behind the ear (assuming that it’s legal to use in your city limits). You don’t even have to use bait much of the time – squirrels will instinctively use them for cover.Īnother option is a. Place them where they travel like the top of fences. I recommend the WCS tube trap to deal with these pests. They also decimate song bird populations by eating their eggs and live young (search YouTube for examples of this behavior). You can kiss your garden fruits and veggies goodbyes with these guys in the neighborhood – they will eat your tomatoes before they even get ripe!
What they can’t eat, they hide and forget about it. They just keep eating and eating, scare off birds and they don’t share. If you’re dealing with the infamous Eastern Gray Squirrel, why even bother with a baffle? They are an invasive species that have knocked out the native red squirrel in many areas.īesides destroying property and starting fires by chewing on wiring and siding, they also carry diseases like the plague as well as parasites like fleas. Would much rather have this kind of problem than not have any squirrels at all. Hey, at least that’s the extent of my problem. If it’s wood-based they’ll jump and smash their heads up against it until it breaks. If it’s plastic-based they’ll chew it apart. My problem with them is that they absolutely *destroy* any bird feeder they come into contact with. I don’t care if they eat out of the bird feeders - there’s plenty of food in plenty of feeders and they aren’t stealing from the birds. But the grays are the bandits.įrankly, I don’t mind squirrels. We have a few reds out here on the Peninsula simply because we have some concentrations of pines. What is bypassing the baffle are gray squirrels. I’m assuming that it won’t have any ill effect on the squirrels themselves, right?Īs an aside, we have four types of squirrels here: gray, red, flying, and fox (one of the subspecies of fox is the Delmarva Fox Squirrel, and endangered squirrel and seen only in a small area here - in 26 years I’ve seen only a handful of them). I’m pulling out the silicon spray right now.
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