Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Planting for Birds, 0 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
Oh! I wouldn't have a problem letting them grow at all. The problem is that the squirrels would climb up the plants to reach the higher bird feeders and would keep all the birds away. As it is now, I have a squirrel feeder mounted at the bottom of a post then a squirrel baffle, and then 3 different bird feeders all on one single 4" X 4" wooden post that is about 6' tall. I think the squirrels would climb up the branches of a Sunflower and possibly other tall plants to raid the feeders that are specifically for my birdies. They are greedy little piggies those squirrels! lol

I don't want to add any more bird feeders to the yard. Too much work and expense. (Though I do have another perch-weighted feeder in another location, but it doesn't get a lot of action. The birds all seem to like this post feeder because it is in the middle of my backyard. lol

BTW - I just weeded out a lot of the sprouts under the feeder yesterday before taking this photo today. There was more green than brown mulch at that time. (sigh)

This message was edited Apr 1, 2007 11:56 AM