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[Amanda Emily <amanda@wa-geek.net>]

For the crows. Go to Michaels or your local craft store and get a fake 
crow and hang it in your tree so it appears to be dead. Seriously, it 
works. My neighbor feeds every stinking crow in town (they follow his 
truck around begging for food) and it keeps them away from my trees.

For the squirrels, I haven't tried it since my cat took care of the 
squirrel population, but a mixture of 50-50 peanut butter and *dry* 
plaster of paris into "squirrel snacks" and leaving them where they can 
get them takes care of that problem according to some of the farmers 
around here. Causes death by a hypercalcaemia -induced heart attack 
(same way squirrel bait works, just faster).

Amanda

Colville, WA



Dianne Stephany wrote:
> Hi Jenny,
> That is a great idea - > why not ask a dog to have a talk with the 
> squirrels? >
>  It would work great if we had a dog or even if a neighbor had a dog. I 
> could ask it to do the job.   Neither my husband nor I are here enough 
> during the day for a dog.  It would be alone too much and lonely.  When we 
> moved here our new neighbors asked suspiciously "you don't have a dog, do 
> you?"
>     We live in the suburbs with a 1/2 acre and  I have always wanted Llamas 
> as guard animals. They are great at keeping animals and people away, and 
> would understand enough to eat only the fallen fruit and not to snack on the 
> leaves or branches.  But of course that is not practical in the middle of a 
> half million metropolitan area.
>
> I am putting the squirrel and crow problem down as a result of a weather and 
> pray that it doesnot happen again next year.
> Thanks! I am still open to ideas. I had been giving thought to a  water 
> squirter on a motion detector- but that would work for only a few trees and 
> other problems like height and water supply.  I am thinking seriously about 
> blood meal and cayene pepper to spray the fruit, but it might keep the 
> squirrels at bay, though probably not the crows.
>
> thanks
> Dianne Stephany, zone 5 
>
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