What a poor deluded person I was.......why did no-one warn me???
I bought myself some plastic bird feeders and filled one with nuts and one with seeds and hung them on the fig tree humming along as I did so.
The next day I looked out at the garden and they were both gone! One was by the gate and one was heading off towards the woodland. I thought 'that's weird, I'll go out in a few minutes and get them'. By the time I went out the one by the gate was still there but the one that was by the woodland had disappeared completely.
I then recalled someone telling me how the squirrels kept stealing his bird feeders. So I hung the one I could find back up and waited. Sure enough after a few minutes out of the foliage appeared 2 grey squirrels. They did all sorts of acrobatics to get to the feeder. I later discovered they had also chewed all the way through the plastic so I had to throw it away.
Off I went to the shops to get some 'squirrel proof feeders' - hah! There's no such thing!! I got metal ones - they chewed through them almost as fast as the plastic, I got ones that are enclosed within another outer metal cage - same thing - chew chew straight through the metal - it just took a bit longer! I tried putting suet squares in metal containers with butterflies all over them to hold it in place - they bent the butterflies back and ate the suet!
I've tried to give them their own nuts in a different place, they eat them then come back for the bird food. I'm sort of torn though as I do love squirrels, they are cute and cheeky but I can see this will be a very long running battle of the feeders!
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