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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers)
Newsgroups: net.rec.birds
Subject: Fun with Feeders...
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Date: Sat, 12-Jan-85 10:40:53 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 12 10:40:53 1985
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I live in a cozy, small home neighborhood in Madison, WI, a town of about
250,000.  We've got a couple of feeders hanging from our clothesline pole,
and we also scatter food on the ground and porch.

Our most common customers are Slate Juncos and the ever popular House
Sparrow.  Other regulars are Cardinals, Black Capped Chickadees, and Pine
Siskins.  Irregulars are White Breasted Nuthatches, White Throated
Sparrows, and American Tree Sparrows.

Our biggest problem is fighting off the squirrels.  The other day one of
the little buggers actually ripped the plastic top off of one of the
feeders.  Whenever we manage to catch them, we have a sporting time by
driving them off with salvoes from our trusty BB gun.

Is there a less violent, more effective way to keep them from scaring off
the birds?

Apologies to Friends of the Squirrel.