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PSA: I switched from a cheap tube feeder to a hopper style and the squirrel problem is gone
I had a basic plastic tube feeder from the hardware store for about six months. The squirrels would hang off it, shake it, and dump all the seed in a day. Last month, I spent $45 on a weight-activated hopper feeder with a metal cage. Now when a squirrel tries to get on it, the perch closes and locks the seed ports. I haven't had to refill it mid-week since. Has anyone else found a feeder that actually keeps the squirrels out for good?
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white.sarah7mo ago
I mean, I gave up on feeders entirely after the squirrels kept winning. Just scattered some seed on the ground for the doves and called it a day. Maybe it's just me but the whole arms race got too expensive.
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morgan.robert7mo ago
My neighbor spent eighty dollars on a squirrel proof feeder last spring. The thing had a weight sensitive perch that closed the seed ports, real fancy engineering. A juvenile raccoon ripped the whole mechanism off the pole in one night, left it bent in the grass like modern art.
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rowanwells6mo ago
Yeah, reminds me of my friend who bought one of those fancy ones with the cage around it. She watched a squirrel hang upside down from a tree branch, stretch all the way out, and just rake seeds through the bars for like twenty minutes. It was basically a vending machine for them. Sounds a lot like what happened to your neighbor, @morgan.robert, where the wildlife just treats our expensive stuff like a puzzle. I guess they've got all day to figure it out.
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