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  • From: Scott Smith <scott@cs.jhu.edu>
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  • Subject: [NAFEX] Poles for Squirrels
  • Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 14:55:34 -0400

I also tried squirrel poles and did get a few that way but not too many.  The snares would misfire too often, most of the time when I checked them they were mis-set and I got sick of fixing them.  It wasn't just squirrel visits that would misalign them, a wind gust could also do it.   I think the squirrels caught on to them after awhile as well, at some point I stopped catching anything in them.  On the plus side I never caught a bird in them.

Basically I've tried about everything, except the bucket-o-death and I am reluctant to try that one given the number of cats in our neighborhood.. curiosity killed the cat they say.

Scott

It was written:

My peach trees are in a location where I can't  
reliably shoot the squirrels and they have gotten most of my peaches  
for the last several years (note that I am clearing out squirrels year- 
round with my pellet gun, and I have only seen one (now-dead) squirrel  
in the last two weeks in my yard, but surely a bunch will descend once  
the peaches start to ripen).  If the tangletrap even slowed them down  
a bit I would call that a victory.  My peach trees are all closely- 
planted and about 8' tall; my plan was to put the tangletrap on the  
main trunks of all of the trees.  Good plan?

My reply:

You might want to try squirrel poles.  Be aware it is an indiscriminate killer. I got more birds than squirrels but it worked.

tfb




  • [NAFEX] Poles for Squirrels, Scott Smith, 05/20/2009

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