We stopped this from happening on our bird houses by putting acrylic around the holes. The birds who use the houses don't seem to mind. We also had woodpeckers trying to enlarge the holes.
"The soil is the source of life, creativity, culture and real independence." David Ben-Gurion
It's actually true. We stopped feeding due to having babies in our attic above the garage & I see they are stripping the bark off the trees now! I am so tempted to feed them tho! :>)
They have to sharpen their teeth somehow. We used to have a bunch who used to chew the bark on a red oak in our yard. Hasn't happened for a while but then I do have a large shelled peanut budget!
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A large branch right outside the upstairs window on the tulip tree is totally without tree bark! We have contemplated cutting that tree down so not really all that mad but still... I stopped buying peanuts & putting out peanut butter on stale bread! LOL
I can't imagine a squirrel chewing off the entire bark but you have his picture so I guess he is guilty. We only had some bark gone from a large tree years ago. That's a hungry squirrel population down there for sure!
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When we decided to feed the squirrels less we did it gradually not abruptly. Is there any food source available now where you live? Also, we knew that we helped increase the population size and the squirrels needed time to adjust because they had become dependent on us.
Originally posted by patty louise: The pic with his tail hanging out is so cute!
DH keeps making owl boxes & the squirrels always move in! LOL!
That's funny, the squirrels are taking over the homes intended for the predators. The squirrels think your husband built the owl houses for them, not the birds. Besides you know squirrels prefer the residences in the better neighborhoods like yours.
Our squirrels help with yard clean up and scold us if we let the yard get to messy. Now if I could just get to stop burying the walnuts and Brazil nuts one of our neighbors feed them in my yard backyard. Heaven only knows what they have stashed in the bushes because the squirrels seem to think they are squirrel kitchen cupboards.
