Thanks for the video. I spread my birdseed on a cookie sheet and spray with Pam cooking spray on the seed. I then put cayenne on top liberally. The Pam helps the cayenne stick better and since it is vegetable oil, no harm no foul.
I put the crushed red pepper mixed in with bird seed. It definitely worked. The birds seem happy, getting a lot more birds. Squirrels come but leave pretty quickly.
Thanks for this video. That pepper is definitely well mixed into the bird food. I will try this next time, as my shaking it on top method is not working! 😋
@@BackyardNatureyt Good info. Thanks! I have another idea which I will try also. If I can get a squirrel baffle onto my camera tripod centre column. Not sure if that will work though as they probably can jump from the legs of it. 🤔
That's awesome! Two squirrels will typically clean out the bird seed in an hour on me, the peanuts and walnuts where birds it can last all day. I have other spots I feed just the squirrels but they go through it much faster than the birds. 🤣
What’s weird is calling someone weird for being different. I enjoy feeding all the animals and put peanuts and such out for the squirrels but they still clean out the feeders quickly. So should I stop feeding the birds so the squirrels can have everything? And the birds aren’t stupid. They’re living creatures trying to survive like everything else. *big fat facepalm*
Works great for us. We now just sprinkle it over the seed. They will find a few that doesn't have it, but huge difference for us. Sorry your squirrels like the hot stuff.
You lost me at the outset when you told us you mixed safflower seeds with black oiled sunflower seeds. Cardinals are the ONLY birds that are attracted to safflower seeds, Mixing them together causes invasive species like sparrows to come to your feeder and waste all the safflower, while they try to find more sunflower seeds. People who buy the mix of sunflower and safflower seeds together are novices who don't know what they are doing. If you have a separate feeder with just safflower in it, yourself, provided they have some other nearby choice.
Thank you so much. Love your opinion. We don’t do mixes, make our own mixes. But we definitely quit wasting money on safflower. Even the cardinals we rehab in this area won’t touch it.
Thanks for the video. I spread my birdseed on a cookie sheet and spray with Pam cooking spray on the seed. I then put cayenne on top liberally. The Pam helps the cayenne stick better and since it is vegetable oil, no harm no foul.
HUGE Thank You!!!
Water works too, and less messy than oil. I put the hot peanuts on my patio table, and oil’s too messy. 🇨🇦🖖🏻🇨🇦
I put the crushed red pepper mixed in with bird seed. It definitely worked. The birds seem happy, getting a lot more birds. Squirrels come but leave pretty quickly.
Thanks for this video. That pepper is definitely well mixed into the bird food. I will try this next time, as my shaking it on top method is not working! 😋
We tried shaking a lot on....it did nothing. Good luck! Hope tomorrow is better!
@@BackyardNatureyt Good info. Thanks! I have another idea which I will try also. If I can get a squirrel baffle onto my camera tripod centre column. Not sure if that will work though as they probably can jump from the legs of it. 🤔
That is much cheaper than the bird seed which comes coated in hot pepper. The seed companies want an arm and a leg for it. Not worth the cost.
The birds still eat this??
Can't hear you over the shaking of the seed.....lol
Add some ghost pepper powder into them to make it super spicy
I've heard Chilli pepper
So weird to me. I’m out here hand feeding walnuts to my squirrels so the stupid birds don’t take it all.
That's awesome! Two squirrels will typically clean out the bird seed in an hour on me, the peanuts and walnuts where birds it can last all day. I have other spots I feed just the squirrels but they go through it much faster than the birds. 🤣
What’s weird is calling someone weird for being different. I enjoy feeding all the animals and put peanuts and such out for the squirrels but they still clean out the feeders quickly. So should I stop feeding the birds so the squirrels can have everything? And the birds aren’t stupid. They’re living creatures trying to survive like everything else.
*big fat facepalm*
@@SuperTabitha17. Just stop it. They didn’t call her wierd. Can’t put out a post without someone getting offended for whatever.
Almost seems sarcastic. Not to be taken literally. Almost.
Nope, cayenne pepper doesn't work.
Works great for us. We now just sprinkle it over the seed. They will find a few that doesn't have it, but huge difference for us. Sorry your squirrels like the hot stuff.
Didn't work, had to use a water trap to finally take them out for good as we had way too many causing problems along with ground squirrels.
You lost me at the outset when you told us you mixed
safflower seeds with black oiled sunflower seeds.
Cardinals are the ONLY birds that are attracted to safflower seeds,
Mixing them together causes invasive species like sparrows
to come to your feeder and waste all the safflower, while they
try to find more sunflower seeds.
People who buy the mix of sunflower and safflower seeds together
are novices who don't know what they are doing.
If you have a separate feeder with just safflower in it,
yourself, provided they have some other nearby choice.
Thank you so much. Love your opinion. We don’t do mixes, make our own mixes. But we definitely quit wasting money on safflower. Even the cardinals we rehab in this area won’t touch it.
Cardinals and finches eat our safflower dedicated feeder daily. Sparrows rarely attempt it. Mourning doves eat up the spills.
You should not talk while shaking didn’t hear a word you said on top of you being muffled.