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A Harrisburg birder called my feeder setup "a squirrel buffet" and I redid everything that weekend
I was at a native plant sale in Harrisburg last Saturday when a woman named Deb pointed at the photo on my phone and laughed, saying my tray feeder hung way too low off the pole. She walked me through her own setup: baffle at 5 feet, feeder at 8, and nothing within 10 feet to jump from. Two weeks in and the squirrel visits went from 15 a day to zero, plus the cardinals finally stick around instead of grabbing one seed and bolting. What heights are you all running on your poles?
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amy_cooper3110d ago
Wait, you had 15 squirrel visits a day? That is way more than I would have guessed for one feeder, and I would have given up long before Deb showed up. My pole setup sounds a lot like your old one, so it looks like I have some measuring to do this weekend.
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