Round Two in my battle with the furry little chompers of my herbs

[Grammy23]

36. My bird feeders get sucked dry by the squirrels regularly.

Honestly, it looked like the squirrels used a Hoover vacuum cleaner to suck out the seeds! Then one day I came across a feeder at a hardware store called a Squirrel Buster. It is a cylinder that is filled with seeds and has a sleeve that slides down over the cylinder. The weight of most birds is not enough to pull the outer sleeve down over the holes where the seeds come out. But if a squirrel puts so much as a toe on the perches, the outer sleeve slides down making the seeds totally unavailable. That feeder works line a charm. It's funny because it only took a day or two for the squirrels to figure out that they were wasting their time with that feeder.

I got the mini version of the Squirrel Buster, but it comes in several sizes that are bigger. I still put out my old feeder but the squirrels manage to empty it in less than one day while the new one stays pretty full for several days.

Squirrels are determined little critters but I think the Squirrel Buster has them stumped! The outer sleeve is metal, so they can't chew through it either. Yay!