Georgia Gardening: Good Rain, Bad Squirrels, 0 by MaypopLaurel

MaypopLaurel wrote:
Paul, that would be one and the same. Calm as can be 'til she smells a critter. They jump very high (as you can see from the other photo) and, if there's some way for them to get into a tree crotch or on a limb, they'll do it. If it's a small tree, like a dogwood or redbud, she stands on her rear legs and shakes the tree with her front legs. Here's a photo of her out of the tree with Goober, the canine auger.

3gardeners, I wish I did have a deadly recipe. Many bulb growers place a layer of wire fencing over their bulbs and right under the soil line. It works until the voles/moles come along :). I had the same feeder you had and it met a similar fate. Once last year I left a few farm packs of bean seed out overnight in my gardening bag. They were gone in the morning. We searched around the hillside and came across random seeds. Ultimately we located what was left of the chewed up packs in the woods.

Tree rats, I hate them too. I can't bring myself to go over to that Wildlife Forum for all that squirrel (and other pesky critter) love that goes on over there. Do those people really garden?

This is a topic that DGers never seem to tire of, so good thread.

L