How I Keep Squirrels and Raccoons Off My Birdfeeders
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- This system has been working for me since installing it 3 weeks ago. I hope it helps you. I'm not a great fan of the white columns and I'm thinking of painting them brown. I don't want to give the critters something they can hold onto though. I may try it with one and see what the results are.
#birds #birdwatching #birdfeeder
Hi Larry. I've been battling raccoons for a few years now destroying my hummingbird feeders. I lost about 20 feeders. I have done what you posted and they keep out smarting me. The best thing to keep the raccoons at bay is an aluminum dyer duct . Lowes has a 60" for $13.99 in 2024. This is the only thing that's worked for me. Hope this helps your trouble shooters...
@@2563titus great idea. Is it the flexible type or the straight type?
Thanks for being an actual compassionate human being and not advocating for people to kill the animals they don’t like to feed. Nothing worse than a person killing an animal because they are eating food they are putting out to feed another animal! Humans can be irrational.
Thanks for your feedback, much appreciated. Couldn’t agree more with you last sentence!
@@LSatch I see videos of people using PVC. I was going to use a metal pipe. I thought squires have nailes that would grab onto the PVC. I certainly will try the PVC.
@@georgebenevides a metal pipe will work too. I’ve been happy with the PVC. Hope it works for you too.
The only way I can keep raccoons from digging in all my potted patio plants is to cover them every night with large styrofoam rose cones with a heavy weight on top. It’s a pain, but nothing else works. I think they are digging for grubs.
Raccoons look so cute but I’m really getting tired of dealing with them. I’m seriously considering putting up an electric fence!
Haha! Love the wildlife… you are too kind to nature and I have a love for them too. I will now try your idea thank you for sharing! 🙌
Working so far. Good luck. Thanks for watching and sharing
Hey Larry the straight type!
It's been almost a week and hummingbird feeders have eluded the raccoons! Thank goodness!!! They don't look attractive but are doing the job!
What a wonderful hobby. Thanks for the tips. Those squirrels are buggers. 🤭
Bless Up!! ❤✌🏻
Thanks for watching, I totally agree with you about the squirrels 🐿️
When I was gathering the materials to put up my bird nest boxes I started with a 4-inch stovepipe, but then I learned that 8-inch was better for deterring larger nest-raiding animals including snakes, however, lengths of PVC pipe of 4 feet or more may be slippery enough to deter most unwelcome guests.
The pvc is working so far. 8” sounds like a winner.
The pvc is working so far for me but I’m sure that 8” would be even better.
@@LSatch; That was 8 inch x 3-foot stove pipe, you put a cap on one end and drill a hole in it. The trick is to let it wobble like a squirrel baffle, they get tired of that real quick. 8-inch PVC would weigh a ton and cost as much.
@@jvcyt298 I got it, I was referring to your stove pipe with the 8", yes 8" pvc would be crazy.
Great info, Larry!
Thank you. I hope it keeps working.
Could I just use a pvc pipe without the shroud/baffle? Given the smooth surface of pvc, if the circumference of the pvc is large enough squirrels and raccoons shouldn't be able to grip/climb, no?
I think so. I have a couple now without the baffles. A few days ago a viewer suggested Loews dyer venting. It would be lighter and probably cheaper. Only a few comments down, check it out.
Stove pipe has always worked for me, plus i put a seed catcher and I don’t feed feed that will end up on the ground
Great advice. I had PVC on hand so I used it this time. I also stove pipe. Thanks for watching and sharing
Our problem is squirrels and bears. We need to keep any feeder pretty high up.
@@carolstella6776 I don’t have an answer for the bears🤷🏻♂️. I don’t think the camera would have a chance with them. My regular feeders are all hung on paracords from a dead tree. I have a video of that in my for the birds playlist. That may help some but I think if a hungry bear came by that wouldn’t help much
Another fine video.
Thanks Robert, much appreciated.
Tanglefoot. Thanx for that. 👍 Hummingbird sugar water, ants. 🤬 I'll order from Amazon.
Great, glad I could help
@@LSatchthank you dearly! Those ants can be as determined and persistent as the squirrels. Getting that Tanglefoot
Say, Larry, I live on the west coast. When is a good time to put out dried mealworms?
I’ve only been to the left coast a couple of times so I’m no authority for sure. I feed them year round. I guess it depends on what birds are visiting your feeders. Here the wrens, bluebirds, mockingbirds really love them. The mockingbirds can hold half a dozen at a time in their beaks. Buy a few a see what happens. Sorry I can’t be of more help.
Why does the PVC pipe keep them out too slippery ot wide?
Yes
How wide is the pvc pipe? 4 to 5 feet long pipe
I have 3" on some and 4" on others because that is what I had on hand. Both work. The pipe can be 4 or 5 feet long but squirrels can jump 5' I've read so just make sure it is at least that far off the ground. Good luck.
I don't think I have a racoon problem anymore. Just mice and deer. But, interesting that the pvc pipe worked, I guess he can't get his nails into it to climb.
If you’re not fighting raccoons you’re lucky. Deer can be bad as well. Your comment on the “bolt” action pencil landed in my comments for review file, 😄. Not sure why. You’re right about the bolt action. Their pens do that for sure. They are high end but they don’t have an eraser 🤷🏻♂️.
@@LSatch I guess I can't leave "gun" talk comments on your videos. 😂
@@leisurelylogan 🤷🏻♂️
Dang raccoons !
Indeed!
Do you grow any grapes there?
@@lorisutherland7728 no I’ve never tried to grow grapes. My neighbor down the road grows muscadine grapes and has a pick your own business.
try using electricity,lol
I have thought of that. I have an electric fence charger that I could hook up.
Your waste is millet, don’t feed it
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