Squirrel wars

We love birds (well, the cute ones really). We enjoy feeding them and watching them. We encourage them to visit our backyard, but those squirrels! What hogs! We don't wanna hurt the critters, just keep them off of our bird feeders. This blog describes some of our experiences in squirrel proofing our backyard. Not necessarily in chronological order.

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Bill had put the bird feeder in the sunroom for the day. All he'd been seeing on the feeder was blue jays and he was feeling stingy I guess.

It didn't take long for a chipmunk to get into the house. Apparently, he chewed a hole in the dryer vent and got in that way. Anyway, the little bugger had loads of fun running around the whole house stashing sunflower seeds all over.

The first day I found a stash of seeds in the bedroom under the comforter. The next day I found little presents (droppings) in several spots while I was cleaning house.

A few days later we noticed sunflower seedlings in one of the house plants. This morning we had seedlings in several plants.

Bill tried to plug the hole in the dryer vent, but chippie still got in. We seem to keep forgetting to buy a new vent cover when we go the the hardware store, but we'd better get it pretty soon. All we need is chippie setting up household downstairs......