Me personally, I like the Flaming Hot Feast brand (pictured above) and buy bags of the mix and cylinders from Amazon linked here. The best reviewed product for this on Amazon is Cole’s Flaming Squirrel Seed Sauce. You can take advantage of this animal kingdom tastebud mis-match by either buying a pre-mixed spicy bird seed or a special spice sauce for birdseed and apply it to whatever you’re putting out. According to Wild Birds Unlimited, birds may even enjoy the taste of spicy food. I’ve had a decent amount of success getting rid of squirrels by spicing up my birdseed.īirds have significantly fewer taste buds than mammals, so they can’t taste and aren’t bothered by spicy bird seed. Squirrels, like humans, taste spice intensely and are repelled away from food that’s too hot to handle. ![]() Get Spicy With Your Bird Seed to Stop Squirrels Flaming Hot Feast is great because it has a combination of sunflower seed, safflower, peanuts and mealworms. That leads to free can’t-beat entertainment: Outside of weight-activated options, there are also feeders with cages and feeders that will literally spin squirrels off of them. Squirrels can chew through those materials and are persistent enough to do so. Just be sure to buy a quality feeder and avoid material like wood and cheap plastic. You can go to any hardware or bird store and they will have several different anti-squirrel feeders available for you to look at. The Squirrel-X™ X7 Squirrel-Resistant Bird Feeder You can read my full review of this feeder here. It can hold a ton of bird seed at once too. I also use this Squirrel-Resistant X X7 Feeder (pictured below) and really like it. I haven’t even seen a squirrel attempt to use this feeder. It’s a favorite for finches, chickadees and nuthatches in my neck of the woods. My favorite is this Squirrel Buster Feeder. ![]() I currently use two squirrel-proof feeders at my feeding station and they both work well. Birds are light enough to not activate the system. They usually work similarly: If something heavy (like a squirrel) tries to hop on, the ports to the feeder close via a weight-sensitive design. There are several different versions of weight sensitive squirrel-proof feeders you can buy. ![]() If you’re tired of these crafty rodents eating your bird seed and scaring away your birds, here are three quick solutions: 1. Worse, their presence will scare away birds for long periods of time as they hog the feeder. While they can be fun to have in your backyard, a few squirrels can easily eat up hundreds of dollars worth of bird seed in a month. Squirrels are smart, relentless, and crafty when it comes to finding ways to gobble up your bird seed.
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